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Microsoft Announces Windows 8.1 With Bing To Sell Cheaper Devices

Posted by Soulskill on from the borrowing-from-amazon's-playbook dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft today confirmed the rumors of a new edition of its latest operating system by unveiling Windows 8.1 with Bing. The company says the main purpose of the new SKU is to allow its hardware partners to sell lower-cost Windows devices; the first ones with the new edition will be announced next month at Computex in Tapei. Windows 8.1 with Bing is exactly like Windows 8.1 with the recently released Windows 8.1 Update, with one major difference: Bing is set as the default search engine in Internet Explorer. Users can still change that option in IE's search engine settings, but OEMs do not have that luxury."

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  1. Can you upgrade by rossdee · · Score: 3, Informative

    Can you upgrade it (for free) to Win 7 and Seamonkey?

    You'd have to pay me a lot to use Win 8.x

  2. Re:Antitrust by Nethemas+the+Great · · Score: 3, Informative

    Err. in case the Nazis show up... "they're".

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  3. Bing is good for rewards & zeitgeist by nomad63 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I religiously visit bing for about 5 minutes daily, to get my points and see which celebrity is diddling which one or who had a fight with whom. Other than that, it might not as well exist. I am still unable to find something that can replace google. Tried duckduckgo but tomorrow, I am going back to google. Results are abysmal at best.

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  4. Re:Whats changed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Maxthon, Incognito and UC browser are all in the store.