Wintel to help leading vendors promote sales of Windows 8 touch notebooks in US, say Taiwan makers

Monica Chen, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES [Friday 9 November 2012]

Microsoft and Intel will offer assistance to first-tier vendors to promote sales of Windows 8 touch-controlled notebooks in the US during the year-end peak sales period, with retail prices for 11.6-inch models possibly to be lowered to US$399, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers.

Because demand for Windows 8-based notebooks is expected to be impacted by notebook brand vendors dropping prices of their Windows 7-based models, Microsoft and Intel are concerned about the issue and have decided to provide assistance to the notebook vendors to promote their Windows 8 products.

Wintel to assist brand vendors promoting Windows 8-based notebooks
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