Microsoft Pushes Low

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Microsoft is preparing to release a new low-cost WindowsServer operating system, to provide customers with a server version of the operating system, which is similar to running on low-cost PC on the client operating system, Ballmer said the somewhat similar to the server operating system, Internet edition for Windows.





Microsoft plans to release the next one or two months a similar online edition of Windows, it is for the server rather than the traditional PC, and Microsoft CEO Steve? Ballmer in the Tuesday's conversation with a member of the Finance Department said.
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He said that although the Internet for a similar demand for the server hardware is not high, but continue to lower the price of the server market, low-cost operating system, a customer makes a kind of rather attractive option.





Ballmer said: "We did not have a line of the environment, but if someone is willing to spend 500 US dollars to buy the server, they are less willing to spend 500 US dollars to buy the server version of the operating system."





Software he described as a "low-cost, low-cost, basic functional WindowsServerSKU", called "Basic Edition", but does not provide more details.





Microsoft is also in its Windows Server Division posted a blog posted, Ballmer reiterated the comments, but the company has yet to do more for the product description carefully.





Microsoft can provide a range of Windows server versions to meet different user needs. However, Forrester Research Inc. analyst ChrisVoce said the company was found in the low-end market, a big vacancy. For some users, even the smallest of the company's server products (bound ExchangeServer, SQLServer, and other software WindowsServer) have some too big too expensive.





Voce said that they wished to make sure WindowsServer can be very flexible. He added that preparations for the Microsoft Windows server version of the new SKU the news he had been aware of, but he did not discuss the details of this right.





Microsoft's earnings are now subject to a certain influence, mainly due to purchase of the full-featured PC customers choose low-cost Netbooks, but not be able to access the company more profits, because Microsoft Windows PC, it is the proceeds of the sale of the majority. Moreover, the Internet could run two operating systems Linux and WindowsXP, which is a eight-year old operating system, Microsoft's software in the Internet market will not like this area in the PC has a leading position as a.





WindowsVista?? XP next to a new system, if run on the Internet this would take up too much on hardware and too much memory. However, Microsoft said, will be released this year or early next year Windows7 suitable for use in the online book.





Ballmer this week, and talk in the financial sector, given the company's expected financial returns for the year. He said the company expects PC sales will continue to very low, and economic conditions in the foreseeable future continue to be poor, so the company will adjust its internal expectations. Microsoft has not given until June 30 the public's financial expectations.