Archive for January 23rd, 2013

New prices for Microsoft Windows 8 from February 2013

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013

Microsoft has released prices for Windows 8 after 31 January 2013 – when the current promotional prices expire.

The new prices are much higher, so if you’re planning on upgrading to Windows 8 – get it before the end of this month.

An auspicious 88 days for Windows 8. Click to enlarge.

An auspicious 88 days for Windows 8. Click to enlarge.

88 days have passed since the global launch of Windows 8, with 60 million licenses sold, (as of 8 January).

Since the opening of the Windows Store the number of apps has quadrupled and globally Microsoft recently passed the 100 million app download mark – just two months after general availability.

In Asia-Pacific, the number of locally-developed apps is currently being added to at a rate of 50 per day and the developer community itself has swelled by 82% since the October launch.

In Singapore, more than 4,000 developers have been trained to develop apps for Windows 8 since launch.

Below are the prices for the various upgrade editions for Windows 8 from 1 February 2013.

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