microsoft launches a £20 version of windows XP ?

[kronas]

microsoft is enticing the thai pc community, by offering a stripped down version of windows xp for 1,500 baht or £20 in sterling.

source: sillicon.com

http://www.silicon.com/hardware/desk...9118260,00.htm

[Stuartbe]

Originally Posted by kronas

microsoft is enticing the thai pc community, by offering a stripped down version of windows xp for 1,500 baht or £20 in sterling.

http://www.silicon.com/hardware/desk...9118260,00.htm

Do you get a free noodle cpu ???

[Kneebs]

This aint ever gonna really take off, not when you can get any software / music cd for a couple hundred baht max, at just about any market...

[Gareth]

Yeah, I saw this on the Reg a little while back. I think that, like Kneebs, piracy is so rife in Thailand that even at â‚ ¬20, Microsoft is still pricing themself out of the market (if you can call it a market). I guess â‚ ¬20 for the majority of Thais is more or less the equivalent of â‚ ¬150 for a European or American.