Several articles on this story have pointed out "In addition, the company will continue to offer Windows XP Starter Edition in emerging markets where it is currently available for the rapidly growing class of hardware-constrained ultra-low cost PCs until June 30, 2010." So it looks like third world countries will be able to buy for an additional 2 years.

owned an indigo2 for a while, nice r10000 mips. nice having a 64-bit cpu and operating system back in 1999. well designed too. Indigo2 was a great machine for 1993 vintage. I think the R10000 CPU was added in 1995. They were cheap to be had in the used market in 1997 when the Octane replaced it. the problem with sgi is that it's been living in the year 1995 since 1990 Perfectly said, chap!

And an emergeny patch today which is supposed to fix much of the lag experience when many players congregate in an area. Cool!