{"id":64750,"date":"2012-11-15T11:18:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T09:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=64750"},"modified":"2012-11-15T16:10:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T14:10:50","slug":"microsoft-sued-over-surface-storage-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/64750-microsoft-sued-over-surface-storage-capacity.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft sued over Surface storage capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> has received a lawsuit regarding the storage capacity of the company\u2019s new Surface tablet.<\/p>\n<p>The Surface RT tablet comes in two sizes \u2013 32GB and 64GB. As with most devices today, the operating system takes up a portion of this internal storage, leaving slightly less user-available capacity.<\/p>\n<p>After running out of storage space in his Surface, Andrew Sokolowski, a California lawyer, was disgruntled by this and has sued Microsoft for false advertisement.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft issued a statement saying that \u201ccustomers understand the operating system and pre-installed applications reside on the device\u2019s internal storage,thereby reducing the total free space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sokolowski and his lawyers are seeking a class action status for the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\" http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/localnews\/2019680330_apusmicrosoftsurfacelawsuit.html\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Times<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Microsoft Surface Touch Cover issue pops up\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/64438-microsoft-surface-touch-cover-issue-pops-up.html\">Microsoft Surface Touch Cover issue pops up<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Surface teardown reveals real cost\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/64018-surface-teardown-reveals-real-cost.html\">Surface teardown reveals real cost<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Microsoft Surface compatibility list for devices\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/63680-microsoft-surface-compatibility-list-for-devices.html\">Microsoft Surface compatibility list for devices<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/59459-cheapest-tablets-you-can-buy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cheapest tablets you can buy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has been sued for false advertising regarding its tablet\u2019s storage space<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":59997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[163,123,12647,7979,16934],"class_list":["post-64750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-lawsuit","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-surface","tag-quicknews","tag-surface-rt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64750"}],"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=64750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64770,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64750\/revisions\/64770"}],"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=64750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}