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Microsoft eases hard drive capacity restriction for netbooks

Monica Chen, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES Asia Wednesday 3 September 2008 0

Microsoft has officially eased the restriction of the standard specification for netbooks using the Windows XP operation system by increasing the allowable hard drive capacity from 80GB to 160GB, according to sources in the channel.

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