UNDER THE NEW CEO, MICROSOFT SEES THE LIGHT AND CUTS WINDOWS PRICE BY 70% $AMZN $MSFT $GOOG
Microsoft MSFT has reportedly cut the price of Windows 8.1 by 70% for tablets and low cost computers. Original equipment manufacturers will now pay only a $15 license for Windows 8.1 if they install it on devices that sell at retail for under $250, this compares to the previous license cost of $50.
No matter how you look at it, a 70% price cut on an operating system that until recently dominated the computing world with 95% market share shows the desperation and challenges facing Microsoft. Look no farther than the press release from Amazon.com AMZN touting its holiday sales, the bestselling laptops were Samsung and Acer Chromebooks that do not run on Windows.… Please click here or the title below to read more.