{"id":44,"date":"2006-04-01T23:55:09","date_gmt":"2006-04-01T21:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2006-04-01T23:55:09","modified_gmt":"2006-04-01T21:55:09","slug":"microsoft-cuts-a-deal-with-governments-from-developing-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft cuts a deal with governments from developing countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today sources from several developing countries&#8217; governments world-wide announced, that Seattle-based Microsoft (<em>NASDAQ: MSFT<\/em>) has cut a deal with them to provide them with a new version of their MS WindowsXP, specially designed for developing countries.<\/p>\n<p>The new version is called WindowsXP-8.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It can be usde on all computers in developing countries, with no limits, as the older version &#8211; WindowsXP &#8211; was working only on computers, which have the minimum requirements (Pentium 300 MHz CPU, 128 Mb RAM, 1.5 Gb HDD).<br \/>\nAs it is known, many of the developing countries still use 8-bit computers, therefore the new version of Windows.<\/p>\n<p>WindowsXP-8 is being distributed on 5.25&#8243; flexible drive disks. The graphic interface of the new operating system is based on the advanced US standard &#8211; ASCII.<\/p>\n<p>The new version comes in a box with all drives (360 Kb each), manual in different languages, and is prized at only $ 99 per computer. It allows free updates in the following three years, to all different versions of Microsoft Windows family products. &#8220;The price is specially made for developing countries&#8221;, said a Microsoft spokeswoman. &#8220;We are ready to give discounts to government who order more than enough copies&#8221;, she continued.<\/p>\n<p>It became also known that Microsoft is in the process of developing an update of the just-released version, it is named WindowsXP8-IIe, and is esp. made for Apple-IIe.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft announced that more news on this topic will be published exactly in one year. &#8220;We are committed to provide such great news for the people from the developing countries at least once a year&#8221;, a seniour Microsoft executive said anonimously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today sources from several developing countries&#8217; governments world-wide announced, that Seattle-based Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has cut a deal with them to provide them with a new version of their MS WindowsXP, specially designed for developing countries. The new version is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=44\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-society"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}