{"id":47978,"date":"2012-04-17T08:23:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T06:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=47978"},"modified":"2012-04-17T09:20:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T07:20:33","slug":"windows-8-name-official-three-editions-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/47978-windows-8-name-official-three-editions-confirmed.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 name official, three editions confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/360852-Windows\">Windows<\/a> 8 is now officially the name for <a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft\u2019s<\/a> next generation operating system (OS), according to a post on the Windows Team blog.<\/p>\n<p>The post confirms the name of the next OS, as well as the three editions that it will ship in.<\/p>\n<p>There will be two editions of Windows 8 for x86 and x64 processors namely Windows 8, and Windows 8 Pro.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 8 is targeted at consumers, and includes an updated Windows Explorer, updated Task Manager, improved multi-monitor support, and the ability to &#8220;switch languages on the fly&#8221;. All of these features were previously only available to Windows 7 Enterprise and Ultimate customers.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 8 Pro meanwhile is targeted at business and technical professionals. It adds features including encryption, virtualization, PC management, and domain connectivity over the standard Windows 8 package.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be a \u201cMedia Pack\u201d add-on for Windows 8 Pro, which includes Windows Media Centre functionality.<\/p>\n<p>The third version of the OS is for devices running <a title=\"ARM\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/360516-ARM-architecture\">ARM<\/a>-based processors, and will be named Windows RT.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-10805_3-57414910-75\/microsoft-makes-windows-8-name-official-three-editions-only\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has confirmed the name of its next operating system as well as the various versions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":47506,"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":[17],"tags":[2752,123,807,451],"class_list":["post-47978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-arm","tag-microsoft","tag-windows","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47978"}],"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\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47980,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47978\/revisions\/47980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}