@John30: "I put XP on it"

"I have been asked to install XP on it"

Did they get to pay you for it? The price of an OEM CD and a couple of hours of time? Say £100 or more?

If folk start to realise that the most expensive piece of a low end computer is Windows, then either folk will look for alternatives, or the price of Windows will come down.

Oh hang on. The price of Windows XP to Netbook manufacturers already did come down, a lot :)

Linux must be doing something right.