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MS May Be Forced To Sell Stripped-Down OS In EU

Posted by timothy on from the hey-those-are-still-tlas dept.

An anonymous reader submits "According to this article at Infoworld, Microsoft may be forced to sell a stripped-down version of Windows in the EU as a result of antitrust rulings, unless a settlement is reached during the next month to six weeks." (See this post from last week for more background on the EU's antitrust proceedings.)

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  1. Multiple Versions of Windows by MattyIce · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This would signify an interesting trend with MS; there is a slimmed version of XP in the works for 3rd-world countries. I wonder if these new stripped out versions would find use elsewhere such as in embedded machines.

  2. Re:FIRST BLOCK by inertia187 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ah crud

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  3. Re:Stripped-down, eh? by T0t0r0_fan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, we've got some strange moderators for this one...Especially when they(/he/she) can't read the article a few posts down. Mod funny, at least, if you're so eager to spend your points...

  4. Re:Remember Windows 98 Lite? by silex_reloaded · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I hope some one will port Gentoo portage or debian to be used with the WindowsXP kernel ...

  5. Re:On the same note.... by octal666 · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    MS "openness" gives me the creeps. I mean, it's like when they offer you "the first try for free" in drugs. They want everyone to work by their DRM, so they can ground their grip on the market, and use it as a standard "de facto" when negociating with the big content providers. All the little companies developing by their DRM are doing the dirty work for them.

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