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Has the price of Windows 8.1 been gone down recently? Blogs have mentioned a drop of about 70%. Please weblink , but mention relevant lines from weblink in your response.
2014-03-01 01:54:27
I just read a very interesting article relevent to this question. Interesting!!! The link is : http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/28/free-windows-8-1-update/
2014-03-14 17:46:40
Thanks very much! Please tell when is Microsoft Build Conference for 2014?
2014-02-25 19:19:13
M$ has not reduced the price on retail copies of their obsolete O/Ss (Win 9x, w2k, XP) so why should they lower the retail price on their latest and greatest O/S. M$ figures that if you are dumb enough to want one of their old O/Ss, you should pay the full price.
2014-02-25 12:19:11
Microsoft have lowered the OEM price (that is, the price that equipment manufacturers pay it, rather than the retail price), for laptops selling for less than $250. See http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-22/microsoft-said-to-cut-windows-price-70-to-counter-rivals.html for more details.
2014-02-27 10:17:51
The original article I saw on the subject (in Hebrew I'm afraid) said that the "normal" OEM price is $50, and Microsoft was lowering it to $15 for cheap devices. Retail prices are a different matter, of course, and Microsoft are not lowering them at all.
2014-02-25 11:42:20
The price of Windows 8.1 has been reduced for OEMs pre-installing the OS on devices priced at less than $250. The price for consumers hasn't changed.This is clearly a strategy designed to combat the rise of cheap tablets and Chromebooks.