ASUS to sell Eee PC with XP

By Alex Serpo, ZDNet Australia
Tuesday, March 04, 2008 10:45 AM

Taiwanese PC manufacturer ASUS is planning to release a version of its educational UMPC, the Eee PC, running Windows XP this month.

ASUS has released a statement saying the Windows XP version of Eee PC will be available to educational institutions through a special tender, and through retailers.

A spokesperson for ASUS said that the company had chosen to offer the Eee PC with Windows due to customer demand.

"Windows XP was specifically chosen due to its built in hardware driver compatibility, meeting users demands when adding hardware peripherals," the spokesperson said.

The first version of the Eee PC runs on the Xandros Linux distribution and was released in Australia in December last year. This version model remain available.

ASUS is yet to confirm if the Eee PC running Windows XP will be more expensive than the model running the Xandros OS. The original Eee PC retails for AU$499 (US$465.12).


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How long will support be offered?
Microsoft mainstream support for Windows XP Home ends on 14/04/2009. So will these be orphaned after then?
Posted by Andrew Yeomans on Tuesday, March 04 2008 05:58 PM

EEE - viruses
LOL its a shame really i was enjoying all the linux hype. oh well onto the next break thru technology that microsoft can take credit for.
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