28 Jul 2005 Microsoft reported the sale of 100,000 copies of Windows XP Starter Edition. It was a very stripped-down version of the most popular operating system, and it was intended for developing countries: Thailand, Turkey, Indonesia, India, Philippines, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and others. It was assumed that this OS will help learn computer literacy to people of modest means who cannot afford the full Windows.
Functionality Windows XP Starter Edition was extremely reduced. At the same time you can run up to three programmes and to open up to three Windows in each, the screen resolution was limited to 1024×768 dots, the license allowed to use the system only on low-cost Intel Celeron and AMD Duron, or Sempron, as well as set the limits on RAM (512MB) and hard disk drive capacity (120 GB). In addition, the Starter Edition was useless in the corporate environment because it does not support Network neighborhood and work in the domain. Such “cruelty” partly offset “exclusive” Wallpapers and screensavers specially prepared for each country.
Desk Thai version of Windows XP Starter Edition
Most likely, the lion’s share of the sales was pre-installed copies of the operating system. It would be difficult to explain the success of the boxed version of the OS, which cost about 30 dollars, in countries where openly selling pirated discs with any piece of software for 70 cents per disc — just like in Russia ten years ago.
28 Jul 2011 the microblogging service Twitter has started to insert promotional tweets in the feeds of users. Existed at that time already five years, the company has been very successful, but loss — making- in the best traditions of modern Silicon valley. However, investors demanded that Twitter decisive action to monetize. Obviously, the free services the main source of earnings could be just advertising.
Paid tweet Intel
In the summer of 2011, users began to notice in his tapes, compiled from friends ‘ tweets, the “extra” messages. Yes, the company did not sell the banners, and instead allowed advertisers to show their posts even to those people that they are not signed.
28 July 1851 received the first in the history of the total solar Eclipse. Using the daguerreotype and 6-inch telescope attached to a 15.8 cm heliometry, a photographer by the name Berkovsky (his name did not reach the descendants) captured on silvered copper plate astronomical phenomenon of the Royal Observatory in königsberg (then Prussia). The exhibition took 84 seconds.
The first photo of the solar Eclipse