“Windows for Free on Phones and Tablets below 9 Inch”, now being offered for Microsoft

The whole idea behind Microsoft offering ‘Windows for free on Phones’ campaign is to lure more and more phone manufacturers use Windows phone and to involve more and more developers in the app creation process.

Meanwhile, in the Build Conference recently held in San Francisco, Microsoft gave away some nice freebies including $500 Windows Store gift certificate and Xbox One. Redmond, in the meantime is planning to give Windows license for smartphones and tablets (lesser than 9 inches) for free.

This means that phone manufacturers will now be able to manufacture Windows Phone Devices and Windows-based tablets of less than 9 inch, but without paying a per-device licensing fee to Microsoft.

In order to boost adoption of applications and make them popular among customers on tablets (less than 9 inches) and phones, Windows is now being made available for free. This one is a massive move for Microsoft, as the company has been known to make billions by selling its Windows software licenses. The offer meanwhile will not cover the profitable Windows desktop software, but only the suffering mobile version.

Windows Phones has managed to make it big in overseas countries, but it still stands at third or fourth place following iOS and Android, if considering the mobile OS global market share. And it will be a risk for many phone manufacturers as well, who must think carefully before sticking to what works-Android or about taking a chance by switching onto the free Windows phone licenses.

Erasing the financial requirement, could push more phone manufacturers to experiment with Windows Phone and might even lure more developers into creating newer apps and services for this platform.

Also, there were talks about the version of Microsoft for the Internet of Things, or Internet connected devices, which usually are not anticipated to require internet connectivity. An example is the Windows 8.1 based piano. Also, it’s been signaled that when this version of Windows for Internet of Things is actually released, the same would be again given out for free.

In order to make it easier for developers and prevent them from creating too many versions of their apps, Microsoft made announcement of a Windows app that will be universal.

Universal Windows apps run on similar Windows runtime, helping developers share a common way of construction and architecting apps for tablets, phones and PCs. This will include everything starting from how developers handle, suspend, resume and accomplish background processing to the way in-app security is managed.

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