On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Phillip Partipilo<p...@psnet.com> wrote: > My Mini shipped with the COA sticker labeled XP Home "ULCPC" edition (ultra > low cost PC edition). As far as I could tell, it was regular XP home > edition, all I can guess is that the difference is in the licensing > dictating what hardware it can be installed on.
Yah, Microsoft was going to prohibit OEM sales of Windows XP licenses entirely. But then Linux started to eat their lunch in the netbook arena. Vista didn't have a hope in h*ll of running on those lightweight machines, and the OEMs couldn't sell XP anymore. So Microsoft extended the sale of XP, but *on netbooks only*. Which seems really sleazy to me. On one hand, they're telling us Vista is the future, XP is a dead-end, Thou Shalt Upgrade. On the other hand, they'll happily sell new XP licenses if the alternative is a computer shipping with Linux. So it ain't about security, support, or anything else. XP is discontinued elsewhere to boost apparent sales of Vista, pure and simple. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
