On Dec 18, 2007 1:56 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > > What happens when there is a preloaded Windows at a pittance (and > official at that) ? >
I have never seen such a preloaded windows version being sold for a pittance ? what happens when they need to upgrade this preloaded windows ? will the upgrade also be free ? > Given that most mom and pop shops assemble their H/W - how much > effective is a Linux distribution in terms of hardware compatibility ? Much better than before... Here in nairobi most cybercafes used to run on windows, over the last 3 months.. the cyber police has been raiding and slapping them with show cause notices for running unlicensed software. As a result most of these cafes are switching to linux distros....