Microsoft Windows XP finds a new life via these ultra portable 7″ / 8″ / 10″ NetBook devices.

Today at Computex currently running at Taiwan, Microsoft has issued a press bulletin stating that company is in work with 20 different OEM PC manufactures, including Dell / HP / ASUS / GigaByte / Lenovo / Acer to deliver the ultra portable products with Windows XP.

Re-Birth for Windows XP ??

These Ultra portable notebooks commonly coming with 7″ / 8″ / 10″ displays are meant to target this new emerging market of developing countries, hence the configuration is not powerful enough to drive Windows Vista in it.

This can be seen as move to not allowing Open Source OSes (Linux) to capture this segment of market.

Incidentally, 1st generation of ultra portables, such as ASUS EEEPC or HCL Mileap included Linux as their primary Operating system.

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