"According to IDG, which obtained details about the price cuts from hardware vendors, Microsoft will offer Windows XP licenses for $26 for developing countries and $32 for the rest of the world. In order to qualify for these deep discounts, products will have to be limited to a maximum of 1GB of RAM, 10.2 inch screens, and single-core processors clocked no higher than 1GHz (though there are apparently some exceptions). Products must also not have hard drives exceeding 80 GB in capacity and cannot have touch-screen technology."

Right about here.

Hmmm .... perhaps, if true to form, M/S is thinking a new strategy, i.e., taking a page from the printer industry, where the ink becomes more expensive than the initial product over the short run, there maybe a plan here with other features/services with this Trojan horse! Thanks for an apparent heads-up!