Is Microsoft looking into making Windows 8.1 free for all?<\/h2>\n
Everyone knows that\u00a0Windows<\/a>\u00a08 and\u00a0Windows\u00a08.1 have one big problem on top of a bunch of a smaller, though not necessarily small, issues.<\/p>\n Namely, it\u2019s unpopular. Very unpopular.<\/p>\n In fact, Windows 8 and 8.1 are so unpopular that, as of January, Net Marketshare, which tracks operating system usage statistics, pegs the combined market share of both\u00a0Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 at just over 10.5 percent<\/a>, well below Windows XP\u2019s share of 29.3 percent, and in a completely different zipcode when compared with Windows 7\u2032s share of 47.46 percent.<\/p>\n To combat this issue, Microsoft has employed a few tactics, including halting support for\u00a0Windows XP in a little over a month from now<\/a>. However, if\u00a0this report<\/a>\u00a0is any indication, Microsoft may try something pretty drastic in order to boost Windows 8 and 8.1\u2032s popularity; making it entirely free.<\/p>\n Wzor.net, a Russian site that has previously\u00a0leaked screenshots<\/a>\u00a0of what were alleged to be the incoming update for Windows 8.1, recently leaked shots of\u00a0something that appears to call itself<\/a>\u00a0\u201cWindows 8.1 with Bing.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more:\u00a0http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/is-microsoft-looking-into-making-windows-8-1-free-for-all\/#ixzz2uoFYbjFs<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n [polldaddy poll=7843150]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The following article comes to us from Digital Trends, usually a good source of geek news and trends. Read the article, in its entirety, then come back and take our poll (at the very bottom of this post). Apple and Chrome have already made their operating systems free — will Microsoft make Windows 8 free? Would it make\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1426],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7117,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116\/revisions\/7117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/icdn2.digitaltrends.com\/image\/win-8-bing-675x450.jpg\")
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