Microsoft is pushing its operating system to more devices by it making cheaper for OEMs. A new version of Windows 8.1 is coming to devices at Computex 2014 dubbed as Windows 8.1 with Bing.
Of course, a cheaper price comes with a trade-off. The cheaper version of Windows 8.1 is shipping to devices with Bing as the default search engine within Internet Explorer. That is actually not a bad deal because you can still change your default search engine and internet browser. Microsoft is making this move to ragain their lost ad revenues.
The only ‘victim’ here are the non-tech savvy consumers who don’t mind using Bing and Internet Explorer. For OEMs, this will reduce the cost to install licensed Windows 8.1 from $50 to $15. The $35 saving per device will lead to less-expensive devices in the future.
Gosh, who hired this guy? Probably Google or Apple? He keeps on writing junk about Microsoft when he clearly knows nothing about its products, especially windows and windows phone 8.1. This article is so biased and unprofessionally-written it looks like it was written by an ignorant high school student.
Anyone who owns a touchscreen windows device like myself should know how poor chrome and firefox perform when using touch, compared with Internet Explorer 11. You practically can’t use either chrome or firefox when you scroll down websites with your finger for a long time because they lag so much, while IE11 is just smooth as butter. True, IE had once been very bad (chrome had been my default browser until my windows 7 laptop broke and I bought a windows tablet-PC), but now IE11 has improved so much that chrome and firefox are truly lagging behind, at least for touch device users. And I’ve switched to Bing ever since I discovered that Google keeps track of all your activities (searches, emails, video views) even when you don’t want them to, so they can target you with ads. That’s probably the reason YouTube (owned by Google) remembers the videos I’ve watched even when I’m signed out and after I’ve cleared my PC and keeps on suggesting similar videos to me. (Yes, I watch some things I’m not very proud to show other people, so this is definitely not a good thing.)
So to say that “The only ‘victim’ here are the non-tech savvy consumers who don’t mind using Bing and Internet Explorer” is not only grammatically incorrect (victimS!), it’s also a disgusting misinformation. I hope the author at least takes some classes on journalism or formal writing before he writes any more junk.