Pocket-Lint: Microsoft will offer its next operating system update, Windows 8, from just £10 to customers who buy a new PC from 2 June.
The cloud storage platform will drop support for older versions of Windows in early 2022.
Microsoft responded with Windows 8 and its Surface RT tablet.
In the earliest days of the Surface, it was hard to shake the notion that the line was something of a reference design for Windows 8.