ULPC (Ultra low-cost PCs) laptops end up bundled through copies of Windows Operating System, if the Microsoft’s recent plan to capture the market share works successfully. Microsoft is giving Windows XP Home Edition to the computer manufacturers at a big discount to put on ULPCs (ultra low-cost PCs), in hopes to keep them away from the Linux OS.
Manufacturers need to be making ULPC (Ultra low-cost PCs) that limit some features like their screen sizes should be not more than 10.2 inches and hard drives should be not more than 80GB. The ULPC (Ultra low-cost PCs) also do not have + 1 GB RAM and the processor must be 1.0 GHz single-core, and do not have any touch screen. These limitations are just to ensure that the ULPC (Ultra low-cost PCs) won’t capture the market share of main stream PCs which are running on Windows Vista.
Microsoft may charge $25 for XP in promising markets like China or India, and $35 for fully developed markets.