{"id":10067,"date":"2009-10-18T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-18T20:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T18:34:00","slug":"microsoft-says-technology-will-spur-economic-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/10067-microsoft-says-technology-will-spur-economic-growth.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft says technology will spur economic growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There was an economic upset. It&#8217;s had an impact around the world,&#8221; Steven Guggenheimer told a Dubai technology conference, adding he has been repeatedly asked whether the <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/Software\/10030.html\">Windows 7 operating system<\/a> would fare well amid the economic downturn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As an industry, we are focused on innovation and the work we do impacts society&#8230; we all have hope that things will continue to move forward and that technology will continue to spur growth,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Guggenheimer, who is charged with worldwide sales, marketing and licensing of pre-installed Windows systems, said there were one billion people using computers, so the impact would resonate.<\/p>\n<p>The audience got a glimpse of Windows 7, which Microsoft releases for sale in New York on Thursday, in a preview displayed as part of Guggenheimer&#8217;s opening keynote address.<\/p>\n<p>Guggenheimer was speaking at Gitex, the Middle East&#8217;s largest information technology exhibition which brings together more than 3,000 manufacturers and suppliers of electronics and communications technology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=197884\"><strong>Microsoft &amp; economic growth<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; discussion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top Microsoft official expressed hope Sunday that technology will spur economic growth around the world as the US software giant launches its latest operating system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}