Microsoft Announces Windows 8.1 With Bing To Sell Cheaper Devices

Posted by Soulskill on Friday May 23, 2014 @09:20AM 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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Can you upgrade by rossdee · 2014-05-23 09:43 · 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
Re:Antitrust by Nethemas+the+Great · 2014-05-23 10:01 · Score: 3, Informative

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

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