So, has anyone heard of Windows XP Starter Edition?

ThePerfectCore · Aug 15, 2004

http://it.slashdot.org/it/04/08/15/1622254.shtml?tid=201

Please tell me this is a joke.

de la mettrie writes "C-Net reports that analysts do not recommend using Microsoft's new 'Windows XP Starter Edition', a low-cost XP version aimed at the Asian market (and previously covered on Slashdot). The report notes that numerous networking features are removed, and the Starter Edition allows only three applications to be run concurrently. According to Microsoft, this limitation 'helps [users] stay organized and reduces confusion.'"

Missed that?

the Starter Edition allows only three applications to be run concurrently

How? Why? What are they thinking?

JoT · Aug 15, 2004

I think it's aimed at the people with 486s

Cyrix_2k · Aug 15, 2004

JoT said:
I think it's aimed at the people with 486s

I think it's aimed at ripping people off...

Aslan · Aug 16, 2004

Well, it fits pretty well with the Intel Shelton.

They're just trying to prevent any piracy or use of Linux, but IMO, as soon as people see how crippled the Starter Edition is, they'll just go back to what they were doing previously.

tom10167 · Aug 16, 2004

this limitation 'helps [users] stay organized and reduces confusion.

-Microsoft

Ah, now it all makes sense.

Send me all of your money!

This will reduce confusion about how you should either spend or invest it.

-Person who wants it
I'll even throw in an operating system that I wrote in an hour.
...On pencil and paper.

PAWO · Aug 16, 2004

this limitation 'helps [users] stay organized and reduces confusion.

-Microsoft

I wonder if that includes prog's running in the background or system tray....LOL! That'd be awesome.

So, has anyone heard of Windows XP Starter Edition?

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