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PC Makers See Little Reason to Deploy XP N

Posted by timothy on from the gee-wally-why-not? dept.

suitepotato writes "In this article, Ingrid Marson reports to CNet News that in a small survey of companies such as Dell, HP, and Lenovo, there are no real plans to deploy Microsoft's Windows XP N which was the version required by the European Union. It would seem that despite the rants of anger towards Microsoft that they were unfairly bundling Windows Media Player with Windows XP, the public at large would not seem to agree and is not actually demanding any such stripped down version. Perhaps the EU's actions were unnecessary?"

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  1. Good for them by scrotch · · Score: 0, Troll

    I won't deploy it either, but then, I don't use Windows at all.

  2. Unnecessary actions ... by DanEsparza · · Score: 0, Troll
    "...Perhaps the EU's actions were unnecessary?"

    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    What 'necessary' actions as the EU taken recently?

  3. Re:Unnecessary my ass by Buran · · Score: 0, Troll

    The US government did actually order MS to be broken up into two companies, one producing OSes only and the other apps only.

    Like a spoiled little baby, MS whined and cried and complained that it wasn't getting its way, and the pathetic excuse for a DOJ we have gave in.

    That's NOT how you discourage a whiny child from whining, and indeed has proven to not have done a damn thing to fix the real problem: that the kid is too big for its britches.

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    i am a soviet space shuttle