{"id":12495,"date":"2012-07-16T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T07:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=12495"},"modified":"2012-07-15T14:17:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T21:17:48","slug":"newsletter-issue-659-so-is-the-world-really-waiting-for-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2012\/07\/newsletter-issue-659-so-is-the-world-really-waiting-for-windows-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #659: So is the World Really Waiting for Windows 8?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People like me who post on sites of this sort are really living in a bubble. The conversation is filled with Mac versus Windows, iOS versus Android, and so on and so forth. These subjects seem to become the most compelling issues of the day, and new products, or the potential for new products, fuel amazing amounts of anticipation.<\/p>\n<p>Well, for us at least.<\/p>\n<p>But in the real wide world out there, with loads of far more serious problems to confront, you have to wonder how many people are clamoring for OS 10.8 Mountain Lion, or even Microsoft&#8217;s Windows 8 for that matter. Will either OS change the personal computing world in any meaningful way?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! There's more than meets the eye!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2012\/07\/newsletter-issue-659\/#way\"><strong>Continue Reading\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People like me who post on sites of this sort are really living in a bubble. The conversation is filled with Mac versus Windows, iOS versus Android, and so on and so forth. 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