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Cut-Rate Windows 'XP Starter Edition' in Thailand

Posted by michael on from the includes-free-starter-virus dept.

zlel writes "Microsoft has decided on an official name - 'Windows XP Starter Edition' - for the stripped-down, cut-rate version of Windows that it first began offering in Thailand last summer."

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  1. Drud pushers... by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Have honed this first "fix" strategy to a science, often giving it away in the hopes of a quick, strong addiction.

    Of course, even most drug dealers know a few virtues, I hate to see how Microsoft perverts this tactic.