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

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Author: Andy Smith
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Asus to ship 60 percent of Eee PCs with Windows XP

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Hi,

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 01:20:10PM -0400, Andy Random wrote:
> 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.


Unless you believe that proprietary software should be illegal, this
sounds good to me - the Windows version will cost more, thus
exposing the additional cost to the market and allowing the market
to decide. Much better than MS bullying the retailer into putting
Windows on everything for a discount.

Cheers,
Andy

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