{"id":211,"date":"2014-02-06T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T00:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/?p=211"},"modified":"2014-02-06T00:00:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T00:00:38","slug":"surfacepro2-is-now-back-up-and-running-and-seems-to-be-ok-easyfiletransfer-has-left-the-building-eft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/surfacepro2-is-now-back-up-and-running-and-seems-to-be-ok-easyfiletransfer-has-left-the-building-eft\/","title":{"rendered":"#SurfacePro2 is now back up and running and seems to be ok&hellip; #EasyFileTransfer has left the building #EFT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have blogged a lot about my experience with the Surface Pro 2.&nbsp; Most of it bad.&nbsp; I must say that it seems that at the moment, touch wood, the thing is up and running and is ok.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned in my last blog that Microsoft have removed stuff from Windows 8.1 \u2013 they have.&nbsp; You can no longer use the #EasyFileTransfer from Windows 8.1 onwards.&nbsp; If you want to transfer files or the like you MUST use the SkyDrive (OneDrive as it is now known) else it wont work.&nbsp; This means that you MUST use your MSA (Microsoft Account) to log into Windows.&nbsp; This coupled with the #SkyDrive force and the #Skype metro application force means that Microsoft see the MSA as a key part of their strategy going forward.&nbsp; God only knows how this will work in the Enterprise world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I must say, not having EFT made some of my activities very hard and cumbersome but I managed in the end to move my stuff between 8.1 devices in the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have blogged a lot about my experience with the Surface Pro 2.&nbsp; Most of it bad.&nbsp; I must say that it seems that at the moment, touch wood, the thing is up and running and is ok. &nbsp; I mentioned in my last blog that Microsoft have removed stuff from Windows 8.1 \u2013 they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[19,52,43,64,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-microsoft","category-surface","category-surface_pro","category-windows-8"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mjsZ-3p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","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=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnkendrick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}