{"id":2462,"date":"2026-04-15T19:40:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/?p=2462"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:16:19","slug":"microsoft-has-a-new-idea-on-how-to-deter-students-from-macbook-neo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/microsoft-has-a-new-idea-on-how-to-deter-students-from-macbook-neo\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft has a new idea on how to deter students from MacBook Neo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/macbook-neo-hello-citrus.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The effects of <a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/1MSbLS\">MacBook Neo<\/a> continue to ripple through the PC industry this week.<\/p>\n<p>As spotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/912639\/microsoft-counters-the-macbook-neo-with-freebies-for-students\"><em>The Verge<\/em><\/a>, Microsoft has introduced a new \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windowsexperience\/2026\/04\/15\/introducing-the-ultimate-college-bundle-built-for-student-life\/\">Microsoft College Offer<\/a>\u201d initiative. Through this, college students in the US can score 12 months free of Microsoft 365 Premium and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate with the purchase of an eligible PC, plus a free custom Xbox controller.<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"mac,macbook-neo\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1048276\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/04\/15\/microsoft-has-a-new-idea-on-how-to-deter-students-from-macbook-neo\/#more-1048276\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The effects of MacBook Neo continue to ripple through the PC industry this week. As spotted by The ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2465,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions\/2465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}