{"id":650224,"date":"2013-04-02T18:54:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T22:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=410421"},"modified":"2013-04-02T18:54:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T22:54:20","slug":"microsoft-could-push-down-windows-rt-prices-to-compete-with-cheap-android-tablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/650224","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft could push down Windows RT prices to compete with cheap Android tablets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With consumers largely ignoring\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/07\/windows-rt-criticism-362860\/\">Windows RT so far<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT<\/a>) may be considering cutting licensing fees to make Windows RT tablets cheaper and help them compete with low-cost Android tablets. Topeka Capital analyst Brian White has released a new research note claiming that Microsoft is planning to release a cheaper version of Windows RT that could result in &#8220;a 35-40% price reduction&#8221; in Windows RT tablets going forward. News that Microsoft plans to push low-cost Windows tablets comes after the company <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/29\/microsoft-windows-7-inch-tablets-403103\/\">made some\u00a0changes to its\u00a0Windows 8\u00a0hardware certification guidelines last week<\/a> that significantly lowered the minimum resolution requirements for devices, thus potentially paving the way for OEMs to make smaller 7-inch tablets.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/nzkeFOiN--I\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With consumers largely ignoring\u00a0Windows RT so far, Microsoft (MSFT) may be considering cutting licensing fees to make Windows RT tablets cheaper and help them compete with low-cost Android tablets. Topeka Capital analyst Brian White has released a new research note claiming that Microsoft is planning to release a cheaper version of Windows RT that could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}