With Windows 8, Steven Sinofsky said that Microsoft and its PC-making partners have found a way to deliver modern computing at a price far less than that fruit-named competitor. He notes that there are full-featured Windows 8 laptops that sell for $279.
These are fantastic machines, Sinofsky said Thursday, shortly after presiding over the Windows 8 launch. Theyre not netbooks or bargain-basement machines. At that price, he said, you can get a computer good enough to last a student through college.
Its $279, he said, Here we are, talking about seven-inch recreational tablets for $329.
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