{"id":70942,"date":"2013-02-20T12:44:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T10:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=70942"},"modified":"2013-02-21T10:21:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T08:21:39","slug":"microsofts-windows-8-app-winner-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/70942-microsofts-windows-8-app-winner-announced.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s Windows 8 app winner announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pierre Henri Kuate is the latest winner in <a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a>\u2019s Windows 8 app development competition for his app called PressPlay Video.<\/p>\n<p>Kuate won an Xbox 360 for the app.<\/p>\n<p>PressPlay Video is a media player providing the best experience for playing local video files (including MKV and FLV).<\/p>\n<p>PressPlay Video supports advanced touch, mouse and keyboard controls, and comes with an integrated explorer which displays the folders inside your libraries, removable devices, HomeGroup and media servers.<\/p>\n<p>Kuate\u2019s next step is to build a similar app for music, movies and series under the PressPlay umbrella.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a lot of app ideas, and chose the most interesting and useful one to build. My thinking is simple: build a great free app and then monetise it,\u201d said Kuate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Windows Store is a good opportunity for any developer with an entrepreneurial spirit. All it takes is a great and unique idea to be competitive at a worldwide scale.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_70944\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/70942-microsofts-windows-8-app-winner-announced.html\/attachment\/pressplay-video\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70944\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70944\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70944 \" title=\"PressPlay Video Windows 8 app\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PressPlay-Video.jpg\" alt=\"PressPlay Video Windows 8 app\" width=\"600\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PressPlay-Video.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PressPlay-Video-100x61.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PressPlay-Video-185x112.jpg 185w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PressPlay-Video-250x152.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-70944\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PressPlay Video Windows 8 app<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Microsoft Windows 8 news<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"10 best smartphone apps\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/70478-10-best-smartphone-apps.html\"><strong>10 best smartphone apps<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to App rewards children for doing chores\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/68518-app-rewards-children-for-doing-chores.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">App rewards children for doing chores<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Personal assistant app for busy digital life\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/68056-personal-assistant-app-for-busy-digital-life.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Personal assistant app for busy digital life<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to 22seven iOS app out \u201csoon\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/69836-22seven-ios-app-out-soon.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">22seven iOS app out \u201csoon\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PressPlay Video app developer is the latest winner in Microsoft\u2019s Windows 8 app development competition<\/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":[36,18256,18258,451],"class_list":["post-70942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-henri-kuate","tag-pressplay-video","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70942"}],"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=70942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70946,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70942\/revisions\/70946"}],"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=70942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}