The Official Announcement: Windows XP gets extended for ultra-low-cost PCs
Posted in: eeepcSo it is true then- Microsoft announced Thursday that they would continue to sell Microsoft XP Home Edition, for “ultra low cost PCs”. By this of course we’re talking about low-cost PCs that generally have small screens, low-powered processors, and (like in the case of the Eee PC) sometimes flash hard-drives.
Home Edition will be available on ULCPCs until June, 2010. This is ONLY for “ULCPCs” though- the sale of XP Home Edition for mainstream PCs will still end at the end of June. Support will continue until April 2009, and to a more limited extent, April 2014.
PC Makers will, however, have the option to choose between XP or Vista, for their “ULCPCs”.
What I would personally like to see is Windows XP “Starter Edition” on some of these laptops, if they get shipped to developing countries.
And by the way- ULCPCs? MIDs? UMPCs? OLPCs? The number of terms for these types of machines is growing by the day. I feel like I’m adding a new tag every time I post! I think the industry needs to settle on a term before consumers start to get very confused…
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