{"id":62504,"date":"2012-10-18T07:42:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T05:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=62504"},"modified":"2012-10-18T14:49:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T12:49:48","slug":"microsoft-surface-pre-orders-sell-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/62504-microsoft-surface-pre-orders-sell-out.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Surface pre-orders sell out"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not only Apple<\/a> that can stoke a tablet frenzy.<\/p>\n

Microsoft<\/a> has sold out of the cheapest version of its Surface tablet computer within a day of the new device being available for pre-order, it emerged Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The devices are due to hit shelves on October 26 but were made available for pre-order Tuesday on Microsoft’s website.<\/p>\n

Buyers wishing to purchase the 499-dollar basic model, featuring 32 gigabytes of memory, without the optional keyboard-cover, were informed Wednesday that shipment would take place within three weeks. Versions with more memory or including the cover were still available for shipment on October 26.<\/p>\n

The Surface marks a major departure for Microsoft, which in the past has refrained from manufacturing its own computer devices, beyond the Xbox gaming console.<\/p>\n

The tablet computers are debuting in conjunction with Windows<\/a> 8, the company’s new operating system, which chief executive Steve Ballmer<\/a> has called the most important launch in Microsoft history.<\/p>\n

The technology giant, whose dominance is based on software for personal computers, lags far behind Apple and Google<\/a> in the market for mobile and tablet devices, which are drawing away customers from traditional computers and laptops.<\/p>\n

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Microsoft has sold out pre-orders of the cheaper Surface tablet ahead of the device’s big launch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":59997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[36,123,12641,2432],"class_list":["post-62504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-surface","tag-tablet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62504"}],"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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62506,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62504\/revisions\/62506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}