Re: [Hampshire] Asus to ship 60 percent of Eee PCs with Wind…

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Author: Adam Trickett
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Asus to ship 60 percent of Eee PCs with Windows XP

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On Friday 14 Mar 2008, Andy Random wrote:
> How very depressing:
>
> The company has said it will now ship almost two-thirds of its
> low-cost PCs with Microsoft's OS installed, to meet customer
> demand
>
>    http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.net/t/307216/1373795/428659/0/

>
> The existing Eee 701 model has until now come only with Xandros Linux in
> Western markets. The 701 will shortly be available with Windows as an
> option, and the next model . the more highly specified 900 . will also
> come with both options, with the Windows version likely to cost slightly
> more, due to Microsoft's commercial licence.


It's dissappointing but hardly surprising. Though with XP to come to an end
shortly people are not expecting to run Vista on the poor little box are
they?

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Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK

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