Hearing: Microsoft is about to lower the prices for Windows for inexpensive laptops

Microsoft warned its partners, collectors of computer equipment, to reduce more than three times the prices for the Windows operating system for inexpensive laptops. This was written by RBC Daily with reference to a representative of one of the largest computers in the world and the director of the Russian PC collector.

According to them, laptop manufacturers worth below $ 250 will now pay for OS $ 10-15, depending on the size of the batch instead of traditional $ 50. The representative of Microsoft refused to comment on this information.

Until 2014, Microsoft did not reduce the price of a full version of Windows below $ 50, regardless of how much the computer costs with this system. However, last spring it became known that collectors of tablets with Intel processors and 8 inches screens do not pay anything for Windows - this allowed Microsoft partners to release such tablets at a price of about $ 300. The same version of Windows works on such tablets as on laptops and ordinary desktop computers. These models compete with cheap tablets with Android, for which manufacturers do not pay anything to its developer - Google.

Competitors are crowded with Microsoft in the computers market. The share of new laptops running Windows for the first time in the history of this market fell below 90%, two weeks ago the Internet edition of Digitimes, citing Taiwanese manufacturers of computer technology. According to Digitimes, to compete with Apple macbooks and laptops under the control of the Chrome system from Google, Microsoft provides Windows laptop collectors for free. This is not so, representatives of PC assemblers object to RBC. According to them, we are talking about giant discounts that are unprecedented for Microsoft.

Laptops for $ 199

In mid -July, at a conference for partners, the operating director of Microsoft Kevin Turner said that by the New Year HP and Acer will release laptops for $ 199. He did not name the characteristics of these laptops, but said that the new Acer laptop for $ 250 has a screen of 15.6 inches, the Intel Celeron processor with a clock frequency of 2.16 MHz and a 500 gigabyt hard drive. Judging by the slides with the presentation of Turner, which was published by The Verge , cheap laptops on Windows will compete with the "chrombuki".