{"id":46483,"date":"2013-09-23T17:46:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T15:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=46483"},"modified":"2013-09-23T17:48:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T15:48:32","slug":"microsoft-unveils-new-surface-tablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/46483\/microsoft-unveils-new-surface-tablets\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft unveils new Surface tablets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp on Monday (23 September) announced updated versions of its Surface tablets in an effort to boost poor sales and challenge Apple&#8217;s iPad.<\/p>\n<p>The software company said the Surface 2, which runs on a low-power chip designed by ARM Holdings, will start at $449 for the 32 GB version.<\/p>\n<p>The new Surface Pro 2, which runs on an Intel Corp chip and can run legacy Microsoft programs, will start at $899 for the 64 GB version.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Microsoft<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Microsoft\u2019s Ballmer regrets losing out in mobile\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/46317\/microsofts-ballmer-regrets-losing-out-in-mobile\/\"><strong>Microsoft\u2019s Ballmer regrets losing out in mobile<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Microsoft ups dividend, buys back $40 billion in stock\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/46122\/microsoft-ups-dividend-buys-back-40-billion-in-stock\/\"><strong>Microsoft ups dividend, buys back $40 billion in stock<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Microsoft to buy Nokia phone unit for $7.2 billion\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/45171\/microsoft-to-buy-nokia-phone-unit-for-7-2-billion\/\"><strong>Microsoft to buy Nokia phone unit for $7.2 billion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Microsoft confirms Windows security flaw\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/41619\/microsoft-confirms-windows-security-flaw\/\"><strong>Microsoft confirms Windows security flaw<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp on Monday announced updated versions of its Surface tablets in an effort to boost poor sales and challenge Apple Inc&#8217;s iPad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,51,6728,1011,3221,6727],"class_list":["post-46483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-intel-corp","tag-microsoft-corp","tag-surface","tag-surface-pro-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46483","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46487,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46483\/revisions\/46487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}