{"id":27870,"date":"2012-03-01T23:17:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T04:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=27870"},"modified":"2012-03-01T23:17:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T04:17:14","slug":"windows-8-looks-to-leverage-pc-coverage-for-mobile-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/03\/01\/windows-8-looks-to-leverage-pc-coverage-for-mobile-os\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 Looks To Leverage PC Coverage For Mobile OS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><object id=\"GrabPlayer1767162\" width=\"542\" height=\"304\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" align=\"middle\" data=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=ve4d534be92838a096d49f0b1d098bcb859bdffa5&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=ve4d534be92838a096d49f0b1d098bcb859bdffa5&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlay-adzone\" style=\"overflow:hidden; position:relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Windows 8 (NASDAQ:MSFT), while late to join the game, could leverage its almost monopoly among PCs to compete for mobile operating system (OS) market share.According to IDC, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Ice Cream Sandwich (47%) and Apple iOS (NASDAQ:AAPL) are sitting at the top of the mobile OSs food chain.Windows got a leg up when it partnered with Nokia (NYSE:NOK) to replace the Symbian OS with Windows for future smartphones.Microsoft intends to widen its ecosystem of OEMs and developers by way of a united OS for PCs and mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/03\/01\/1_1muhcokf_thumb.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/03\/01\/1_1muhcokf_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 8 (NASDAQ:MSFT), while late to join the game, could leverage its almost monopoly among PCs to compete for mobile operating system (OS) market share.According to IDC, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Ice Cream Sandwich (47%) and Apple iOS (NASDAQ:AAPL) are sitting at the top of the mobile OSs food chain.Windows got a leg up when it partnered &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/03\/01\/windows-8-looks-to-leverage-pc-coverage-for-mobile-os\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Windows 8 Looks To Leverage PC Coverage For Mobile OS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}