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We may have a record here. On Thursday, I wrote about XP heading to the Third World on artificially restricted PCs as Microsoft pushes the industrial/developed world aggressively toward Vista.

Within hours, my inbox was flooded. Well over 30 responses poured in. Here are as many letters as we could squeeze into one newsletter -- check out tomorrow's for the rest.

Meanwhile, XP is now officially part of the One Laptop Per Child program, right alongside Linux.

Posted by Doug Barney on May 19, 2008


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