Rob Beard wrote: <snip> > Quote from BBC's article... > > "The success of the Eee PC and the rush by many companies to release > similar products has seen a recent about-turn by Microsoft. > > The company has said it will extend support of its XP OS on > sub-notebooks, in an effort to thwart the growing use of Linux on such > machines. > > It has also slashed the cost of a licence for XP running on netbook > machines to just $32 (£17) and £14 in developing countries." > > Am I right in thinking that £14 is a lot of money in some of the > developing countries!?! > > Still £14/£17 more expensive than Ubuntu ;-)
It's a great sum in many countries (though the cost of the sub-notebook itself by comparison astronomically huge). However, whatever the cost, Win XP leaves you with less useable storage on the EeePC than GNU/Linux does. And I guess M$ will still struggle with very cheap computing ;-) (I guess that's why they're trying to strong-arm the computer-makers into using M$ only by means of cheap deals on the OS but *only* if they refrain from installing any other OS on what they sell!! Looks like they might be REALLY worried about this development. Good!) Mac -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
