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Get your 20th Anniversary edition of Windows ... in Japan
by Marc Perton Nov 18th 2005 at 10:26AM
Microsoft is apparently celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Windows (Windows 1.0 shipped on November 20, 1985), but only in Japan. The company will be releasing a special 20th Anniversary box, which in addition to including Windows XP, will feature a 20th Anniversary desktop theme, replica installation CDs for earlier versions of Windows (though, alas, no floppy replicas for the really old versions), Windows origami, stickers and even a beta copy of Windows Vista. A few random copies will also include packages autographed by Bill Gates, and some customers will be entered into a drawing for a trip to Redmond. The price for all of this limited-edition (only 9,999 copies will be made available) goodness? ¥28,140 yen ($235 USD). Or, of course, whatever the eBay market will bear.
[Via Engadget]
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Fabulo said 5:06PM on 11-18-2005
Japanese always get all the
totally uselessgood stuff!Was there really a Japanese language version of Windows 1?
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Ryerson Student said 9:17PM on 11-19-2005
yeah how come japanese gets the latest stuff?
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Blue Balloon said 10:59AM on 11-21-2005
The rumor told me that MS give these special boxes to Japan for thank them for make XBox 360.
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