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Microsoft Decides To Take On Linux On Low-Cost PCs

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-they-can dept.

e5rebel writes "Microsoft is launching a program to promote the use of its Windows OS in ultra low-cost PCs. It is an effort to stop Linux dominating this market but Microsoft is insisting on limiting the hardware specs of these devices."

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  1. Re:Not performance limiting restrictions by BobZee1 · · Score: 1, Redundant
    from the odd little article:

    That's where the hardware limits come in. Besides limits on the screens and hard drives, to be eligible, the systems can have no more than 1G byte of RAM and a single-core processor running at no more than 1GHz.

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    dumber people are doing harder things everyday