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Wintel puts all its chips on Windows 8 (reuters.com)
3 points by iProject on June 11, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



"Analyst Serene Chan of Frost and Sullivan said that Microsoft plans to charge $100 for each Windows 8 licence - a significant increase over what it charged for Windows 7 running on mobile devices, especially when compared with Google's Android operating system, which manufacturers can use for free."

"The cost of the licence that OEMs have to pay Microsoft will be a major drawback," she said.

100 dollars per W8 license


Not surprised. Microsoft and Intel have been helping each other for decades. That's why they coined the term "Wintel". But unfortunately for both, the future is "Armdroid".




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