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Microsoft Develops XP 'Light' for Thailand

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the first-one's-free dept.

GoatJuggler writes with this Bangkok Post report that "Microsoft announced plans to develop a discounted, slightly crippled version of Windows XP for Thailand."

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  1. Re:You mean you can cripple it more? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    yeah, make it work more like linux

  2. Thats great... by hatrisc · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    if crippled means, getting rid of internet explorer, the windows kernel, and everything else, and replacing it with, linux 2.6.2, gnome 2.4....

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  3. Re:Less Bang for the Bok by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hope springs eternal

  4. News? by WernerStormcrow · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The article is dated Wednesday 04 February 2004. So this is more like News for Nerds. Stuff that mattered.

    Also, I guess they just want to get rid of some old Windows 2000 CDs by putting an "XP light" bumper sticker on them and selling them to less developed countries. It's like selling crap to the poor.

    In fact, it is selling crap to the poor, now that I think about it.

  5. Re:You mean you can cripple it more? by SIG+TR0LL · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    no, but they are almost always part of any linux distribution.

    dipshit.

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  6. Boy Microsoft just can't please slashdotters by Killswitch1968 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If they 'overcharge' their product, their exploiting their monopoly.
    If they charge market price, they are 'colluding'.
    If they undercharge they are using 'predatory pricing' to grab market share.

    Short of distributing free Mandrake CDs with the same gusto as AOL, I don't think MS can make a move that won't be criticized.

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  7. Re:the real truth is that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Dude, you gotta get past that English-as-a-second-language thing. Nobody knows what the fuck you said.