I don’t quite know how, but this one managed to escape my attention until now (it was launched in 2006). Anyhow I just read about this while reading about the Asus Eee PC.
It would seem that there exist a reduced/limited Windows XP version for deployment to older pc’s and other equipment with reduced/outdated hardware (ram cpu etc). It should be able to run on 233mhz pc’s with as little as 64mb ram. Nice 🙂 also useful for the odd virtual PC.
It however require a SA license with Microsoft which makes the whole thing less interesting for home users. A shame as there is many old laptops lying around that would work fine for simple browsing etc.
Take a look here;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Fundamentals_for_Legacy_PCs
http://tonysblog.real-family.com/2006/09/windows-fundamentals-for-legacy-pcs.html
http://bink.nu/news/microsoft-windows-xp-fundamentals-for-legacy-pcs-screenshots.aspx
I recently got a CUE file containing a whole Audio CD album, but as I wanted to transfer the music to my Ipod I was puzzled how to do.. I could burn a cd and then rip it, but this felt like a de-tour . A little browsing the net came up with a neat little freeware utility “Medieval CUE Splitter V1.0”, this neat utility split up the CUE to mp3 files in no time. Nice. But why someone need to create these CUE files in the first place is beyond me.