{"id":15457,"date":"2012-06-15T01:07:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T23:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=15457"},"modified":"2012-06-15T12:10:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T10:10:40","slug":"microsoft-teases-big-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/15457\/microsoft-teases-big-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft teases big announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> is being secretive about a &#8220;major&#8221; announcement it plans to make in Los Angeles on Monday (18 June 2012).<\/p>\n<p>The company invited media to an afternoon event, but it says it won&#8217;t divulge the location until that morning. In an email, the company says, &#8220;This will be a major Microsoft announcement &#8211; you will not want to miss it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft declined further comment Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The venue suggests it has to do with the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months Microsoft Corp. has made more TV programming available on its Xbox 360 video game console. <a title=\"Netflix Inc.\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2115-Netflix\">Netflix Inc.<\/a> is among the offerings on the Xbox, and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is on Microsoft&#8217;s board.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is also preparing to release a new operating system, <a title=\"Windows 8\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1884-Windows\">Windows 8<\/a>, that works across laptop computers, tablets and even televisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is being secretive about a &#8220;major&#8221; announcement it plans to make in Los Angeles on Monday (18 June 2012).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,3163,169,1794],"class_list":["post-15457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-announcment","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15457"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15510,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15457\/revisions\/15510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}