Microsoft XP
Empowering End Users with Pre-Installed Software
End users of computers in the developing world often want to engage in activities that are beyond the stock software that comes with popular operating systems, especially Windows XP. But they usually lack the knowledge or bandwidth to find and download the right applications.
To empower these users, and reduce implementation time and costs, Inveneo has developed a Community Center Software Collection - more than 30 applications, including iTunes, Skype, QuickTime, RealPlayer, Flash, Shockwave, and solutions for typing tutors, editing photographs, audio files, and movies - that come pre-installed on request for XP-based hardware platforms.
This bundle of software and OS modifications is designed for a shared computing environment where there is little to no technical support, and has proven to be very useful for computers running Windows XP Home in rural and remote areas. Its available in English or French, however the operating system must be in the same language.
While this specific Community Center Software Collection is unique to Inveneo, its our hope that the underlying idea - appropriate, pre-installed software applications that make computers instantly useful to end users - becomes common in the developing world.
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Wayan Vota
InveneoWayan Vota is a technology expert focused on appropriate information and communication technologies (ICT) for rural and underserved areas of the developing world. He is a Senior Director at Inveneo and is the editor of ICTworks


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