{"id":168,"date":"2013-12-20T17:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2013-12-20T17:07:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T17:07:19","slug":"microsoft-pull-surfacepro2-update-and-now-look-to-provide-a-fix-over-christmas-december-firmware-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/microsoft-pull-surfacepro2-update-and-now-look-to-provide-a-fix-over-christmas-december-firmware-update\/","title":{"rendered":"#Microsoft pull #SurfacePro2 update and now look to provide a fix over Christmas #December #Firmware Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the terrible patch released in December became major  tech news Microsoft pulled it from their update programme.<br \/>\nThey initially said that users wouldn&#8217;t expect a fix until some time next year.<br \/>\nTheir tone, after quite a bit of media and social network pressure seems to have changed. They now state they are working on a patch over the Christmas period.<\/p>\n<p>Good news for people like me who are left with a expensive digital photo frame instead of a high performance Surface Pro.<\/p>\n<p>God alone knows how this mess occurred. They own the hardware, the software and the firmware and yet STILL managed to produce a poor quality release.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure who they have outsourced this work to, but whoever it is better improve their quality else their contract with MS will probably come to an abrupt end&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the terrible patch released in December became major tech news Microsoft pulled it from their update programme. They initially said that users wouldn&#8217;t expect a fix until some time next year. Their tone, after quite a bit of media and social network pressure seems to have changed. They now state they are working on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,52,14,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-microsoft","category-software","category-windows-8"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mjsZ-2I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}