Microsoft software company plans to make free versions of Windows Phone and Windows RT for manufacturers of smartphones and tablets. About it reports theverge.com portal with reference to its sources.
At the moment, a significant portion of Microsoft's profits come from selling licenses to electronics manufacturers who preinstall the OS on their devices. The major part of licenses for Windows Phone software giant sells to Nokia, which releases 80 percent of all devices on this platform. As soon as Microsoft completely absorbs Nokia, it will be inappropriate to buy licenses from itself.
With Windows RT, things are even worse. If the smartphone OS version in a small amount, but still supported by other manufacturers, then the RT version is installed only by Microsoft on its Surface and Nokia on its new Lumia 2520 tablet.
Having made its platforms free, Microsoft plans to take part of the market from Android. In order not to lose profit on such changes, the company will focus on the application store and its other services.
The distribution conditions of Windows Phone and Windows RT may change with the release of the next major Windows update, code-named Threshold, which will affect the entire system family. According to various rumors, this update will be available in 2015.
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