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Wouldn't it be possible that it is 90-100 Taiwan dollar instead of US dollar. than the license cost is 3.4 US dollar. It seems to me that it would be suicide of MS to command such a high price for its tablet OS. It would make the tablet as expensive as its desktop OS. Not a great strategy to conquer the "iPad market". A pricing akin to windows mobile would seem to be more logical.

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No. Having to charge $100 even for the bare-bones/no-legacy support Windows 8 ARM version is exactly why they did this instead of using WP7 and expanding it for tablets. Because then they would've had to charge only $15 for it, or maybe a little more, but that's about it. It's still a huge mistake for Microsoft to do this though, when Android is free.

Android isn't free if you want the Play Store/Google Maps/Gmail, not to mention the effort needed to write the drivers for the hardware.

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