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Microsoft to Release a Thin-Client Windows XP

Posted by timothy on from the see-also-ltsp dept.

repking writes "I'm reading on Brian Madden's Thin Client Web that Microsoft is about to release (don't know exactly when) two new versions of Windows XP targeting the thin-client market (This products ARE NOT the Lite XP versions that Microsoft is about to release on certain countries like Brazil). Codenamed Eiger and Mönch, these two new releases would let you 'convert' old PC into thin-client Devices. Is Microsoft trying to compete with open source projects like PXES or ThinStation?"

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  1. Re:Not sure why they're bothering by Felonious+Ham · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Heck, XP runs usably *standalone* on any P2 class machine with 384MB of RAM or more.

    I didn't do any kind of customization, but my wife's Dell Inspiron 1100 2.4G with 256M was a dog with the installed XP. After everything loaded, (defaults + spybot/antivirus) there was only 60M of free mem. She could run a browser without grinding the hard drive, but a second application would make the thing almost unusable.

    Do you have to do any witchery to get the old machines to run?