XP Lite? A version for older and lower performance machines.

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I read somewhere that there might be a 'light' version of XP because the
demand was deemed potentionally great from users of older hardware that were
looking for an upgrade path from say 98 or ME. I have done a lot of
volunteer work with the recycling and refurbishing of older hardware. Having
an XP Lite version would be great. This is of course something completely
different than the version that Microsoft has introduced into Asia. Does
anyone know anything and is there any chance of such a thing. I have lots of
ideas but obviously it is hard to know where to place them. But a trimmed of
the fat XP would be super-cool (kind of like a very stable, fast, and
responsive 98). Thanks for any info.

Eric
 
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Ericc72 said:
I read somewhere that there might be a 'light' version of XP because
the demand was deemed potentionally great from users of older
hardware that were looking for an upgrade path from say 98 or ME. I
have done a lot of volunteer work with the recycling and refurbishing
of older hardware. Having an XP Lite version would be great. This
is of course something completely different than the version that
Microsoft has introduced into Asia. Does anyone know anything and is
there any chance of such a thing. I have lots of ideas but obviously
it is hard to know where to place them. But a trimmed of the fat XP
would be super-cool (kind of like a very stable, fast, and responsive
98). Thanks for any info.

Eric
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Google it.

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What I heard is XP Lite is going to be for those 'poor' folks in India,
Pakistan, etc to buy as they can't afford what we pay in the States or
Europe.
 
Ericc72 said:
I read somewhere that there might be a 'light' version of XP because the
demand was deemed potentionally great from users of older hardware that
were
looking for an upgrade path from say 98 or ME. I have done a lot of
volunteer work with the recycling and refurbishing of older hardware.
Having
an XP Lite version would be great. This is of course something completely
different than the version that Microsoft has introduced into Asia. Does
anyone know anything and is there any chance of such a thing. I have lots
of
ideas but obviously it is hard to know where to place them. But a trimmed
of
the fat XP would be super-cool (kind of like a very stable, fast, and
responsive 98). Thanks for any info.

Eric
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Not while Uncle Bill holds a big chunk of Intel stock, I'd venture....

....Bill
 
I read somewhere that there might be a 'light' version of XP because the
demand was deemed potentionally great from users of older hardware that were
looking for an upgrade path from say 98 or ME. I have done a lot of
volunteer work with the recycling and refurbishing of older hardware. Having
an XP Lite version would be great. This is of course something completely
different than the version that Microsoft has introduced into Asia. Does
anyone know anything and is there any chance of such a thing. I have lots of
ideas but obviously it is hard to know where to place them. But a trimmed of
the fat XP would be super-cool (kind of like a very stable, fast, and
responsive 98). Thanks for any info.

Eric
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The "light" version of XP may not be available in North America, Europe or
Asia. MS has determined this version will be for "third world" countries.
 
I read about this on the Net this week. It's supposedly part of a plan
to distribute over 100,000 or 1,000,000 (forget which) hand-cranked
(I'm serious) laptops for poor students in Third World nations.

The article didn't go into detail about who would make the components
that would come in for less than $100. I find it difficult to believe Uncle
Bill would provide ANY support for a $100 laptop...including a Lite
OS. There's no profit to be made.

This could be another in a succession of grand schemes for the poor that
never pan out. My favorite was the Jimmy Swaggart plan to fly over the
jungles of Central and South America and parachute out TVs so that the
natives could watch Jimmy's television ministries. Jimmy didn't take into
account that jungle natives typically don't have electricity to drive the TV
sets and, since they typically don't have satellite dishes, they couldn't watch
TV being beamed out of Louisiana.

People bitch about the effort it takes to scroll even with a scrolling mouse.
Imagine trying to view a complex eBay screen while hand-cranking the
PC in a leaky schoolhouse in Vietnam. And, of course, the $100 hand
cranked PCs would be infected with hundreds of spyware/spam schemes.
 
Bill Gates has made back his investment in WindowsXP many times over.
And, with that said, it wouldn't take very much effort to dumb down
the software (a few million lines of code), to give nothing but the
essentials required for school kids to type, read and surf the net.
My understanding was, if you handcranked the generator for 1 minute
you'd get 10 minutes of play time. I would assume you could crank the
thing for 10 minutes to get an hour of use. According to the article I
read the machines are encased in rubber that makes a hermetically
sealed laptop when it's closed. The only problem I had with the
article was, are all the machines wi-fi? And if so, who's gonna' put
up satellites for them to send and receive from? Another pipe dream? I
don't think so. I've made several dumbed down linux machines for
people that will onlly do email and surf the net and maybe their
finaces; however, that would be a chore to try and have the finance
program capable of translating the value of their currency against
what? The American dollar?
Bob
 
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