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Laptops/Notebooks

May 11, 2008

Microsoft to Limit Capabilities of Cheap Laptops

“It allows PC makers to offer a low-cost alternative, and it prevents eroding of pricing and margins in the mainstream OS market”

News By Agam Shah Microsoft is launching a program to promote the use of its Windows OS in ultra low-cost PCs, one effect of which will be to limit the hardware capabilities of this type of device, IDG News ... via CIO

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