{"id":10509,"date":"2013-01-12T00:22:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T08:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=10509"},"modified":"2013-01-12T00:31:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T08:31:59","slug":"windows8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/windows8\/","title":{"rendered":"Should You Upgrade to Windows 8?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Erik Dryer-Goldman is the owner of Ask Erik Computer Services in Seal Beach, Calif. Send questions to erik@askerik.com<\/p>\n

If you’re one of those people who needs to have the latest and greatest (or should I say newest as you may think that Windows 8 is not that great) then it’s a matter of personal preference.<\/p>\n

Windows 8 starts up quicker, is faster and offers far better battery life. The Windows Store (think of the Apple app store) gives you access to thousands of aps – many of them free. If your PC runs Windows 7 then it should perform much better running with Windows 8. There is a completely new interface which carries over from the PC to tablets and Windows phones. Microsoft is trying to make things easier with its metro-style interface as far as consistency is concerned having multiple devices and using SkyDrive and Microsoft websites….read full story<\/a>><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Erik Dryer-Goldman is the owner of Ask Erik Computer Services in Seal Beach, Calif. Send questions to erik@askerik.com If you’re one of those people who needs to have the latest and greatest (or should I say newest as you may think that Windows 8 is not that great) then it’s a matter of personal preference. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10509"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}