{"id":19810,"date":"2013-06-03T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=19810"},"modified":"2013-06-03T10:14:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T15:14:30","slug":"microsoft-finally-has-long-lines-for-surface-tablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/tablet\/microsoft-finally-has-long-lines-for-surface-tablets\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Finally Has Long Lines For Surface Tablets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interested in Microsoft’s SurfaceRT or Surface Pro tablets, but not willing to pay the premium prices of $599 and $899, respectively? On the off chance that you’re registered for the 2013 Microsoft TechEd conference in New Orleans, then you’re in luck. The Redmond-based computer giant has slashed prices for attendees with full conference passes. The logic is that conference-goers already paid $2,195 to get in, so why not give them a little break?<\/p>\n

It’s reported<\/a> that there are already long lines to get a $99 SurfaceRT (complete with Touch Cover) and a $399 Surface Pro. A few of these conference-given tablets are bound to show up on eBay and whatnot, but a one and half hour wait to get a Surface? Microsoft has been dying for (head)lines like that.<\/p>\n

While it should be noted that those attending such an event are already going to be Windows-oriented, hopefully the lesson Microsoft takes away from this will be something along the lines of, “Maybe we need to cut prices.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interested in Microsoft’s SurfaceRT or Surface Pro tablets, but not willing to pay the premium prices of $599 and $899, respectively? On the off chance that you’re registered for the 2013 Microsoft TechEd conference in New Orleans, then you’re in luck. The Redmond-based computer giant has slashed prices for attendees with full conference passes. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,12],"tags":[9,2893,4829,4830,4828,2746,4844,2046,4831,1908,23,4824,3167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19833,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19810\/revisions\/19833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}