{"id":63680,"date":"2012-11-01T10:39:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T08:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=63680"},"modified":"2012-11-01T14:54:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T12:54:56","slug":"microsoft-surface-compatibility-list-for-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/63680-microsoft-surface-compatibility-list-for-devices.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Surface compatibility list for devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> has released a compatibility list for the company\u2019s new Surface tablet.<\/p>\n<p>The list includes a variety of USB printers, headsets, keyboards and other products which will work with the Windows RT tablet.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft claims that the Surface supports a whopping 420 million different hardware devices, and has launched a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/compatibility\/winrt\/CompatCenter\/Home \" target=\"_blank\">Compatibility Center<\/a> which lists most of these products.<\/p>\n<p>The devices are broken up into categories, allowing users to view \u201cCameras &amp; photo,\u201d \u201cPrinters &amp; scanners,\u201d or \u201cTV devices\u201d which will work with the Surface tablet right out of the box.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft also lists incompatible products, making trouble-shooting a lot easier.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_63686\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/63680-microsoft-surface-compatibility-list-for-devices.html\/attachment\/popular-windows-rt-device-compatibility-products\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63686\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63686\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63686\" title=\"Popular Windows RT device compatibility products\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Popular-Windows-RT-device-compatibility-products.jpg\" alt=\"Popular Windows RT device compatibility products\" width=\"600\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Popular-Windows-RT-device-compatibility-products.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Popular-Windows-RT-device-compatibility-products-100x54.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Popular-Windows-RT-device-compatibility-products-185x100.jpg 185w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Popular-Windows-RT-device-compatibility-products-250x135.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-63686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Popular Windows RT device compatibility products<\/p><\/div>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/compatibility\/winrt\/CompatCenter\/Home\" target=\"_blank\">Windows Compatibility Center <\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Nokia vs HTC vs Samsung: Windows Phone 8 spec sheet showdown\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/60295-nokia-vs-htc-vs-samsung-windows-phone-8-spec-sheet-showdown.html\"><strong>Nokia vs HTC vs Samsung: Windows Phone 8 spec sheet showdown<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Windows Phone 8 launched, new features unveiled\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/63400-windows-phone-8-launched-new-features-unveiled.html\"><strong>Windows Phone 8 launched, new features unveiled<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Windows Phone 8 SA unveiling announced\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/62968-windows-phone-8-sa-unveiling-announced.html\"><strong>Windows Phone 8 SA unveiling announced<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft lists the devices which the Windows RT Surface tablet will easily pair with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":52927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[123,7979,16558,13065,807,451,12649],"class_list":["post-63680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-microsoft","tag-quicknews","tag-surface-compatibility","tag-surface-tablet","tag-windows","tag-windows-8","tag-windows-rt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63680"}],"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\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63702,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63680\/revisions\/63702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}