MS Plans Low-Cost Windows for Brazil

Atryn writes "According to this C|NET article, Microsoft is planning to release its XP Starter Edition in Brazil. Could the pressure of Brazil's overtures toward Linux be forcing Microsoft Brasil to compete?"

Comments

Re:Starter Edition?

[ZosX]

have you ever used windows 2000 for more than 5 minutes on a 128 meg system? I have and even running more than one app at once is PAINFUL. Opening programs is painful too as te system swaps out. Sure Windows 95 could boot on a 4 meg system (I've seen it happen), but it took so freaking long to get anything up and running that it was really kind of useless. Maybe if you ran word all the time or something and never had anything else running like even a virus scanner (Norton 2k3 takes up 15 megs or so alone). I'm just saying that it wouldn't be the best user experience. Even W2K on a 256 meg box feels kind pudgy after a while.

Re:Big Fight

[LWATCDR]

"Linux (or anything else), there'd be an incubator for creating the whole ecosystem: business apps, games, servers; to force hardware companies to make drivers;"
True long term but... It will lock your country out of the bigger world market short term. And what if you guess wrong. You will condemn your country to being a Tech backwater until you upgrade in mass to Windows. I am not a fan of Windows but being the first has risks as well as rewards.