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MS Plans Low-Cost Windows for Brazil

Posted by timothy on from the cut-rate-low-budget dept.

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?"

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  1. The doctor is a cylon? by loggia · · Score: -1, Troll

    (ducks)

  2. Piracy In Brazil: First Hand by redswinglinestapler · · Score: -1, Troll

    Being from Brazil myself, I can attest to the fact that piracy is very rampant, and that this "starter" edition will do little to combat it. People who just want the real thing will have to take five minutes of their time to visit their nearest street vendor and buy the full version for less than $2.

  3. tubg]irl by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    over the same NIGGER community progrees. In 1992, Bloc in order to that the project I'm discussing they are Come on If you have prospects are

  4. Re:Starter Edition? by ZosX · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

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  5. Re:Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Warning...homo.

  6. Linux is shit code anyway by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's just a matter of time before Microsoft puts the plug in LinSux. OSS is a steaming pile of shit code

  7. Re:Crippled XP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Simple - because Microsoft are cunts!

  8. No... Fuck YOU! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I mean really!

    I'd rather see Linux Die a horrible death than be forced to use it over Windows and the DOZENS OF PROGRAMS I USE TO GET ACTUAL WORK DONE EVERY DAY!

    Linux has maybe 1/5th of what I currently use on Windows. Until it is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT a drop-in replacement for Windows and every program I use on it, then Fuck Off And Die you useless Linux expremist retard!

  9. Re:Big Fight by LWATCDR · · Score: 0, Troll

    "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.

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