Microsoft Says Windows to Be Free for Some Mobile Devices
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Microsoft Corp. is making its Windows licenses free for mobile phones and tablets that have screens of less than nine inches, in a move to spur adoption of the software.
The world’s largest software company has historically made Windows available to hardware makers for a licensing fee. That has put Microsoft at a disadvantage to Google Inc.’s Android mobile operating system, which is offered for free to device manufacturers such as Samsung Electronics Co. and which has become the most widely used software in smartphones and tablets.