Microsoft to slim down Windows XP for older PCs
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Microsoft is readying a slimmed-down version of Windows XP for users who want to upgrade their Windows operating systems but not their PCs.
The software, code-named Eiger, will be based on Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 and is designed for server-centric computing environments. It can run on a system with a Pentium II processor, 128MB of RAM and a 500MB hard drive, said Barry Goffe, a group product manager at Microsoft.
"There is a set of customers who have old hardware and who want to try to eke a little more value out of that hardware," Goffe said in an interview on Thursday.