Microsoft Windows 8.1 will get 70% price reduction

No thanks, i'll use W7 up to 2077

 

I'll probably do the same, german199, even though I did buy a couple of copies of W8 when it first appeared on Amazon.

 

It should be illegal to reduce price by 70% on the charges their initial price was 70% bigger and the product was broken

 

men, this is good news for every1. cheper prices means moer men will be usin this OS than ever before. hallyryu wanted a cheap window 8 so this should be god news to him an many other felow gurus here an accross the globe (

 

All in all is a good move for MS, and it will make some users happy.
By the way Win 8.1 is not broken, the only problem is the interface, but if don't count it you will get a nice OS (not the best bust still a good one).

 

Initially the upgrade version was dirt cheap.

 

Yea it was like $14.99 or something ridiculous to begin with

 

Hmmm...

This is much smaller thing than the press wants to tell you. Its only for PCs selling for less than $250 so its only for the junk market.

 

Helping their OEMs be more competitive can't be a bad thing. I hope they make it up in volume.

 

In other news, Microsoft discovers that most users wouldn't downgrade to Windows 8 for free.

 

it's on upgrade. But good for ms to go -70% not bad, not bad at all.

 

^this.

 

Would you rather have a bunch of sheep, lemmings and yes men posting?

 

I think he rather have constructive comments over the usual gaggle of 'windoze 8 bad lulz !!!!'

 

Ummm I'd still prefer Linux. This sounds like MS is desperate.

 

Win 8.1 is pretty good. I might buy some copies for my other PCs.

 

These days people aren't happy unless they are complaining about something, so negativety should be expected on tech forums.

Windows 8.1 is far from perfect, but it's better than Windows 7 and that is all that matters.

This should be good news for a lot of people as it will bring down prices, which might help bring some people back to laptops/desktops.
Probably not though, most people are happy with a tablet now and Apple and Google have the majority of those customers.

 

The only reason I haven't moved to Windows 8 is because it doesn't offer me anything major over Windows 7. I'd be more tempted to jump over if the price was low enough, but I doubt I'll bother anytime soon. I'll see what the next major update does for things and consider the move then.