{"id":52137,"date":"2012-06-08T10:18:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T08:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=52137"},"modified":"2012-06-08T10:20:12","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T08:20:12","slug":"microsoft-bans-htc-from-making-windows-8-tablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/52137-microsoft-bans-htc-from-making-windows-8-tablets.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft bans HTC from making Windows 8 tablets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"HTC Corporation\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/340335-HTC-Corp.\">HTC<\/a> is being shut out of <a title=\"Windows 8\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/360852-Windows\">Windows 8<\/a> tablet development due to a lack of experience in the tablet market.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bloomberg sources, <a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft\u2019s<\/a> decision to lock HTC out of Windows 8 tablet development came after HTC\u2019s dismal tablet sales. The software giant is worried that HTC may \u201cdiminish and tarnish\u201d the Windows 8 experience.<\/p>\n<p>HTC engineers were reportedly interested in building a Windows 8 device with a customised home screen; however Microsoft refused, and will instead work with other vendors that have achieved higher tablet sales.<\/p>\n<p>HTC may release a Windows 8 tablet device, but only with the second wave of releases sometime next year.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2012\/06\/07\/windows-8-microsoft-bars-htc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft doesn\u2019t want HTC to be a part of Windows 8 tablet development<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":47506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[403,123,807,451],"class_list":["post-52137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-htc","tag-microsoft","tag-windows","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52137"}],"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=52137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52139,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52137\/revisions\/52139"}],"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=52137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}