{"id":2426,"date":"2008-09-05T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hothardware.com\/News\/Microsoft-Gurus-at-Best-Buy-to-Pimp-Windows"},"modified":"2008-09-05T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T19:45:00","slug":"microsoft-gurus-at-best-buy-to-pimp-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=2426","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Gurus at Best Buy to Pimp Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Microsoft is doing a lot more than having Jerry Seinfeld munching churros and going shoe shopping with Bill Gates to help bolster the company&#8217;s image. Part of Microsoft&#8217;s $300 million marketing campaign includes placing Microsoft customer service representatives in select consumer electronics retail outlets across the U.S. Similar in nature to &#8220;Apple Geniuses,&#8221; Microsoft will be placing 155 &#8220;Microsoft Gurus&#8221; at Best Buy, Circuit City, and similar stores before the end of this year&#8211;presumably<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Microsoft is doing a lot more than having Jerry Seinfeld munching churros and going shoe shopping with Bill Gates to help bolster the company&#8217;s image. Part of Microsoft&#8217;s $300 million marketing campaign includes placing Microsoft customer service representatives in select consumer electronics retail outlets across the U.S. Similar in nature to &#8220;Apple Geniuses,&#8221; Microsoft will be placing 155 &#8220;Microsoft Gurus&#8221; at Best Buy, Circuit City, and similar stores before the end of this year&#8211;presumably <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=2426\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}