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Poor Microsoft

Posted Apr 2, 2007 2:09 UTC (Mon) by ldo (subscriber, #40946)
In reply to: Poor Microsoft by bluegecko
Parent article: Mandriva participates in Intel's Classmate PC project

Thanks for that link.

Hmmm ... it mentions something called "Win XPE". Wonder what that is? Sounds like it's XP-based, rather than Vista-based.

Also no mention of what the difference in price might between the Dimdows version and the Linux version.

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Poor Microsoft

Posted Apr 5, 2007 17:40 UTC (Thu) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link]

Windows XP Embedded -- presumably they haven't had time to strip out the inessential components from Vista, and besides, if even corporate users with in-house IT staff shy away from new OS releases for at least a few months, it makes even more sense to be cautious for this sort of mass deployments.