title: issue in installing cordova in windows 8
body: <p>when i try to install cordova for my windows machine  , this error keeps on coming, what is wrong here ? </p>
  
  <p>i have updated npm before installing cordova .</p>
  
  <p>is there any way to install cordova other than from CLI ?</p>
  
  <pre><code> C:\&gt;npm install -g cordova
  npm WARN engine cordova-js@3.8.0: wanted: {"node":"~0.10.x"} (current:      {"node":"
  0.12.1","npm":"2.5.1"})
   npm WARN engine npm@1.3.4: wanted: {"node":"&gt;=0.6","npm":"1"} (current:     {"node":
  "0.12.1","npm":"2.5.1"})
  npm WARN engine xmlbuilder@2.2.1: wanted: {"node":"0.8.x || 0.10.x"}       (current: {
  "node":"0.12.1","npm":"2.5.1"})
  npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.2.9200
  npm ERR! argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\\\node.exe" "C:\\Program      Files\\nodejs
  \\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "-g" "cordova"
  npm ERR! node v0.12.1
  npm ERR! npm  v2.5.1
  npm ERR! file C:\Users\Mahesh EU\AppData\Roaming\npm-   cache\xtend\4.0.0\package\p
  ackage.json
     npm ERR! code EJSONPARSE
  
  npm ERR! Failed to parse json
  npm ERR! Unexpected token
  npm ERR! File: C:\Users\Mahesh EU\AppData\Roaming\npm-   cache\xtend\4.0.0\package\ 
  package.json
  npm ERR! Failed to parse package.json data.
  npm ERR! package.json must be actual JSON, not just JavaScript.
  npm ERR!
  npm ERR! This is not a bug in npm.
  npm ERR! Tell the package author to fix their package.json file. JSON.parse
  npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.2.9200
  npm ERR! argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\\\node.exe" "C:\\Program    Files\\nodejs
  \\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "-g" "cordova"
   npm ERR! node v0.12.1
   npm ERR! npm  v2.5.1
  
  npm ERR! Uncaught, unspecified "error" event.
  npm ERR!
  npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this error at:
  npm ERR!     &lt;http://github.com/npm/npm/issues&gt;
  
  npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
  npm ERR!     C:\npm-debug.log
  
     C:\&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>please help</p>