When the $99 HP Stream 7, which will have a 7-inch screen, and the HP Stream 8, with its 8-inch screen, launch users will get a one-year subscription to Microsoft’s Office 365 Personal service. The HP Stream 7 and HP Stream 8 are tablets on a mission to stop Android’s growth in the low-end tablet space with a low price and plenty of extras.
Microsoft and its Windows hardware partners might not have taken the threat posed by Chromebooks seriously before, but as the ultra-cheap HP Stream notebook and $99 Stream 7 tablet show, they definitely are now.Īnnounced today on its Blogging Windowsnews blog, there’s no mistaking the HP Stream notebooks and the HP Stream 7 and HP Stream 8 tablets for what they are: Google killers and a way to easily shore up the amount of devices with Windows 8 being sold.
