{"id":66070,"date":"2012-12-03T13:01:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T11:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=66070"},"modified":"2012-12-03T13:02:19","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T11:02:19","slug":"microsoft-windows-8-app-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/66070-microsoft-windows-8-app-competition.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Windows 8 App competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has launched a competition to encourage people to develop applications for its recently launched Windows 8 operating system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMicrosoft wants your best Windows 8 or Windows Phone 8 apps \u2013 and you\u2019ll not only stand the chance to win monthly prizes, but you could possibly have hundreds of millions of people just aching to use and buy your applications,\u201d the company said in a press statement.<\/p>\n<p>Every month until February 2013, the best Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 apps will receive national honors and win prizes like an Xbox 360, a slate PC and Microsoft keyboards and mouses.<\/p>\n<p>The winning apps will be promoted at the TechEd Africa conference which will take place in Durban next April.<\/p>\n<p>From Microsoft:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To stand in line to win, you have to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Email the name of your app and publisher id to appsza@microsoft.com.<\/li>\n<li>Need Help? Visit http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/southafrica\/totalapps<\/li>\n<li>Do the online training on how to build a Windows 8 App in 30 days<\/li>\n<li>Access the free tools and resources<\/li>\n<li>Ask for help at any time by emailing appsza@microsoft.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Windows 8 makes lukewarm debut: sales tracker\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/65906-windows-8-makes-lukewarm-debut-sales-tracker.html\"><strong>Windows 8 makes lukewarm debut: sales tracker<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Windows Phone 8 reboot fix coming\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/65722-windows-phone-8-reboot-fix-coming.html\"><strong>Windows Phone 8 reboot fix coming<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/63608-windows-phone-8-sa-launch-dates-pricing.html\">Windows Phone 8 SA launch dates, prices<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/60295-nokia-vs-htc-vs-samsung-windows-phone-8-spec-sheet-showdown.html\">Nokia vs HTC vs Samsung: Windows Phone 8 specs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has launched a competition to encourage the development of Windows 8 applications<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":63116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,123,451],"class_list":["post-66070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66070"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68334,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66070\/revisions\/68334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}