Microsoft Plans $3 Suite for Emerging Markets

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has finally decided it’s time to sell their Operating System for a small sum or $3, that is the good news and for the bad news, it is going to be made available only in third world, probably not in China and it is not Windows Vista but a trim down version of Windows XP, well I guess when you live in a third world computers are a luxury, getting a good graphic card just for Vista and the Aero rendering engine is not economically viable.

What is the reason behind this sudden change of plans? Experts believe that this could signal the threat pose by Linux, we’ve seen many big company offering linux as an alternative to Windows and on the server side Microsoft is slowly losing out to linux and fear that the same thing might happen in the desktop market. Microsoft’s aim is to have as many as 2 billions computer running Windows in the next few years with the introduction of the $3 Windows XP, good move indeed but can they beat those pirated Windows Vista selling for $1?

As part of the new plan, Microsoft will offer a US$3 software package called the Student Innovation Suite, which includes Windows XP Starter Edition, Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007, Microsoft Math 3.0, Learning Essentials 2.0 for Microsoft Office and Windows Live Mail desktop.

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