[ubuntu-uk] Dell reply to EeePC

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Rob Beard wrote:
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> 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!)

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