This is one of the funniest things I've ever read.
Let's mix a proprietary OS, a failed dotcom bubble business plan, coop the microloans idea with usury levels of interest, and wrap it in flowery "let' save the 3rd world brown people" marketing packaging. MS is desperate.
You can build a pc for the price of a retail copy of Windows XP.
Maybe that professor with the $100 laptop and the Ubuntu suite finally got them scared?
You gotta admit MS didn't do any favors for tinkerers when they pulled XP outa their hat.
I reformatted my HD and reinstalled XP and it blew my settings right out the door. Same hardware, same software, everything...
Cripes I'm skeered to add another 128MB of memory.