microsoft has obviously misread the market. There have been repeated suggestions to them for lower pricing in asia on buyer power basis. Instead they have come up with this really stupid option. They don't seem to realise that asian consumeras are more tech savy and very conscipous of cost-benefit analysys. It is going to leave many managers read in face soon.
Regards saswata
"Aayush Iyer" aayush.iyer@ftgl.net wrote: __________
Posted by michael on Sunday August 15, @12:50PM @Slashdot.org
from the windows-with-training-wheels dept. de la mettrie writes "C-Net reports that analysts do not recommend using Microsoft's new 'Windows XP Starter Edition', a low-cost XP version aimed at the Asian market (and previously covered on Slashdot). The report notes that numerous networking features are removed, and the Starter Edition allows only three applications to be run concurrently. According to Microsoft, this limitation 'helps [users] stay organized and reduces confusion.'"
""The report notes that numerous networking features are removed, and the Starter Edition allows only three applications to be run concurrently. According to Microsoft, this limitation 'helps [users] stay organized and reduces confusion.'""
Do we really need this?
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On 18/08/04 13:37 +0000, scrapo@saswatabanerjee.com wrote:
microsoft has obviously misread the market. There have been repeated suggestions to them for lower pricing in asia on buyer power basis.
They can't do that because the product is the same in Europe, the US and Asia. They have had to justify their prices in court, and now they are stuck with living with that.
Instead they have come up with this really stupid option. They don't seem to realise that asian consumeras are more tech savy and very conscipous of cost-benefit analysys. It is going to leave many managers read in face soon.
Nice typo.
Please stop top posting.
Devdas Bhagat
Sometime Today, Devdas Bhagat assembled some asciibets to say:
Please stop top posting.
did you notice the long lines or did they not bother you? This is what it looks like in the archives: http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/pipermail/linuxers/Week-of-Mon-20040816/015950.htm...
Don't know about you, but I hate horizontal scrolling, especially since my scroll mouse doesn't have a left-right scroll.
On 18/08/04 17:05 +0530, Philip Tellis wrote:
Sometime Today, Devdas Bhagat assembled some asciibets to say:
Please stop top posting.
did you notice the long lines or did they not bother you? This is what it looks like in the archives: http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/pipermail/linuxers/Week-of-Mon-20040816/015950.htm...
I fixed those while quoting. It does bother me, but trying to teach people to do two things at a time has apparently proven futile.
Don't know about you, but I hate horizontal scrolling, especially since my scroll mouse doesn't have a left-right scroll.
mutt wraps.
Devdas Bhagat
Sometime Today, Devdas Bhagat assembled some asciibets to say:
mutt wraps.
Does mutt read the list archives on the web? I was talking about scrolling in a web browser while reading the archives. That's what anyone who comes to us via a web search sees. That's the impression we give to the world.
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