{"id":44653,"date":"2012-02-29T19:06:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T17:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=44653"},"modified":"2012-03-01T09:41:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T07:41:32","slug":"windows-8-released-for-user-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/44653-windows-8-released-for-user-testing.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 released for user testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> is for the first time letting consumers try out its upcoming <a title=\"Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/360852-Windows\">Windows<\/a> 8 operating system, which it hopes will be used to power a new wave of computer tablets and traditional PCs.<\/p>\n<p>The test &#8220;beta&#8221; version of the revamped system was introduced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the planet&#8217;s largest cell phone trade show.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday offered it up free for download, along with free applications in a new &#8220;Windows Store.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Windows 8 doesn&#8217;t have the traditional &#8220;Start&#8221; menu and applications are spread across a mosaic of tiles in a design Microsoft calls &#8220;Metro.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The tiles, which resemble road signs, can be navigated with a finger swipe on the screen or with a keyboard and mouse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/en-US\/windows-8\/iso\" target=\"_blank\">Windows 8 download link<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Microsoft Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/42883-microsoft-sa-windows-re-imagined-and-great-new-devices.html\"><strong>Microsoft SA: Windows re-imagined<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is for the first time letting consumers try out its upcoming Windows 8 operating system<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":33840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[35,123,451],"class_list":["post-44653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-headline","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44653"}],"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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44655,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44653\/revisions\/44655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}