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