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  1. Comment - Latin America Gets Slimmed Down XP

    (Jun 30, 2005 - 10:57 AM)

    LOL... They sold a lot of escorts here...

    Going back to starter edition... Here the mainstream press mentioned that this XP version won´t allow to open more than 3 programs at the same time, and won´t allow to make a LAN with it. It simple won´t work.

    So, you open a browser, e-mail application and a text editor and that´s it. If you want to open Messenger, you have to choose one of the three programs running and close it.

    So IMHO MS stripped to many things here.

    They newspappers also said that this OS will work only in the cheapest Intel and AMD processors. The slowest models.

    Other limitations will be the screen resolution (1024 x 720).

    I heard that this OS was developed in order to sell in Easter Asia, but I didn´t work.

    If the equation is -less quality = - prize, I don´t like it. I don´t know how it will help to underdeveloped countries to be more competitive as Felipe Sanchez Romero (CEO of MS Mexico) mentioned.

  2. Comment - Latin America Gets Slimmed Down XP

    (Jun 29, 2005 - 3:19 PM)

    No one here, in Latam will buy this OS. In Argentina MS is trying to boost XP supporting a government program called MiPC (MyPC), which basically is the opportunity to buy a cheap PC (don’t ask about quality) with legal XP installed.

    I don’t know how successful is it going to be.

    Here, most people don’t want, and don’t have the money in many cases to buy MSFT OSes. So, many of them goes for a pirated W2k.

    But, this idea of a Starter Edition is a crap. Imagine to Ford trying to sell a cheap car in Latam, with a speed limit of 50 mph. Stupid, no?

    At least, if you’re going to pay for it, MSFT should provide XP N (like in Europe). Sell a good OS at a reasonable prize for the region.

    Is it because we are poor countries? Second class consumers for M$?

    I think that brazilian government is in the right direction by supporting Linux.