Microsoft confirms mistake but will honour cut price purchases
Microsoft's unexpected price slashing of Windows 8 Pro was a mistake.
Yesterday we reported that Microsoft had dropped the price of Windows 8 Pro to £45, lower than regular Windows 8 at £99. The firm has confirmed with PC Advisor that this change was made in error. See also: How to upgrade to Windows 8
Microsoft said: "Due to an error in our system, Windows 8 Pro was available on the Microsoft Online Store in the UK at a price that was advertised lower than our regular Microsoft Store price."
If anyone managed to purchase the cut price Windows 8 Pro operating system while it was cheap, Microsoft will honor the purchase. Well, it was Microsoft's fault after all.
"This pricing error has been corrected and we are honoring all legitimate purchases that occurred while we worked to resolve the issue. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience our customers may have experienced." the firm added.
The price has now returned back to £190 which is the price it increased to at the beginning of February after Microsoft's upgrade offer ended. The pricing error affected on the UK website and not the US site where it remained at $200.
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Comments
Hal Motley said: Actually if I wanted a modern version of Windows 78 I wouldnt mind spending 45 for the Pro version of Windows 8 I hate Windows 8 but I would put a lot of my hatred for it aside if it was dirt-cheap and the software costs are identical to a hackintosh build Apple software is actually very reasonably pricedOf course I would want to find a way to disable the Metro and bring back as much Win 7 functionality as possible
Arc said: Windows 8 is the error If they said it was 10 still not buying it to replace 7
Ade said: So the US get it for around 13300 and we pay 19000 UK ripped off as usual tax man happy though
Omendata said: Great marketing stunt but i doubt they will get the 70 million buyers they need in 24 hours
Murray Snudge said: Ive seen some marketing stunts but this one -
Duncan said: When are these big companies going to learn I bought my copy when it was on offer and a reasonable price if Microsoft kept it at a reasonable price I bet that they would sell a hell of a lot more copies I for one would not have paid the price it is now especially when there are many free OS like unbuntu which is improving all the time and I use triple booted with W7 amp 8