Microsoft vies for budget laptop market with XP price cuts (ars technica)

Microsoft is offering reduced prices on Windows XP to combat the threat of Linux on low-cost ultra-mobile PCs, according to this ars technica article. "According to IDG, which obtained details about the price cuts from hardware vendors, Microsoft will offer Windows XP licenses for $26 for developing countries and $32 for the rest of the world. In order to qualify for these deep discounts, products will have to be limited to a maximum of 1GB of RAM, 10.2 inch screens, and single-core processors clocked no higher than 1GHz (though there are apparently some exceptions). Products must also not have hard drives exceeding 80 GB in capacity and cannot have touch-screen technology."

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