Low-cost &#39;Hindi Windows&#39; to hit Indian desktops next year
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Indian PC users can expect to see a localized, stripped-down version of Microsoft&#39;s XP operating system early next year. Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft plans to ship the low cost version of its PC operating
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Software maker has its eye on consumers who might be ready to make the switch from Windows.
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Microsoft Corp. has announced it will target 2006 for release of its newxt Windows client operating system, code-named &quot;Longhorn&quot;.
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Garabito writes &quot;Cnet reports that Microsoft plans to distribute in Russia the low-cost, stripped-down version of Windows XP, called &#39;Starter Edition.
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Microsoft is expanding its experimental Windows XP Starter Edition program to India, the company disclosed on Wednesday. It&#39;s the second such announcement from Microsoft this week.
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PC World: Businesses don&#39;t have to dump Windows to test drive free or low-price applications whose use may improve the bottom line.
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The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant on Wednesday announced a year-long pilot program to start shipping the Windows XP Starter Edition to India in early 2005.
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Wood paneling and chrome made your dad&#39;s station wagon look like a million bucks, and they might also be just the ticket for Microsoft&#39;s fledgling effort to put a Media Center PC in every living room.
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Microsoft announced Wednesday it would offer a low-cost starter edition of its Windows XP operating system in Asia starting in October, as it strives to hold onto market share facing erosion from the open-source Linux system and software piracy.
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Microsoft has expanded its initiative to provide a low-cost distribution of Windows in Asia. Although the program was originally directed exclusively toward social welfare programs in Thailand and Indonesia, it will now be expanded to Malaysia. The software will be available in all three countries by October.
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Fast on the heels of its announcement that Russia would be the fourth of five countries in a pilot program of a low-cost, limited-functionality version of Windows XP, Microsoft named India as the fifth country.
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It plans to begin manufacturing in India in the first half of next year, with an initial focus on the production of desktop computers.
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Microsoft Corp.  said it will  begin selling a stripped-down, low-cost version of its Windows  XP operating system in the emerging markets of Indonesia,  Malaysia and Thailand in order to spread the use of computing  and develop technology markets.
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Updated OS, new consumer products expected to be introduced next month.
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Microsoft vows to release the next version of Windows by the end of 2006 - but  without some key components.
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Microsoft is removing features and cutting prices in India for a special version of its Windows XP operating system to tap the large market potential
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Brussels - Microsoft Corporation said on Monday it is ready to put a stripped down version of Windows on the market if ordered to do so by a European court.