MS plans $3 Windows & Office Suite

[iMav]

I was reading a blog which was talking about a exec who planned o retire sometime soon, he was heading the - Unlimited Potential Group, now 1 of the projects that this group is carrying out is the $3 Windows and Office suite which will be offered through government-subsidized PC programs, this initiative is targeted towards developing nations to help them become Computer literate ... now praka & others please dont start ur crap leave this topic as a piece of news thats what it is

oh and yeah now that the exec is planning to retire this group is gonna be headed by an Indian - Anoop Gupta

with this project MS is actually hoping to comps as cheap as $200/$300 before govt subsidies, yeah i know the eeepc and stuff like that, just read the news and move on with ur life

[BBThumbHealer]

Not Possible ...

[y2j826]

MS = Microsoft
MS = My Software

may b pirated softwares . . .

[victor_rambo]

Originally Posted by BBThumbHealer

Not Possible ...

Competition makes everything possible

[NucleusKore]

Originally Posted by rohan_shenoy

Competition makes everything possible

Yes it does.

Now on topic it's nice to get Windows and Office for $3.

What remains to be seen is how feature rich these versions of Windows and Office are. For example, I read that in Windows starter edition, one cannot run more than a certain number of windows at a time in the taskbar, and there are certain other restrictions.

[Cool G5]

Offcourse it won't be full fledged.It will come with limitations for sure.
It would be better to use OOO then.

[CadCrazy]

"Alla ke naam lelo baba. Are koe to le lo baba "

[slugger]

seriously y r v going ga-ga over a $3 USD Office copy, when it could be said with reasonable confidence that a free OOO and linux is a lot more feature rich and no restriction at all

starter Ed allows only 3 programs to run simul - with linux bcoming more and more user-fiendly M.S will have to do a lot of thinking to stay in the game

Originally Posted by CadCrazy

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