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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. Re:Analogy? by Chandon+Seldon · · Score: 0, Troll

    Did you just use RTF as an example with the intent of proving software interoperability.
    Worst. Example. Ever.

    RTF was designed by one of Microsoft/Corel as a least common denominator format for word processors. It doesn't have any page formatting features, no tables, no embedded images, nothing. The only application it might be useful for is email, but it doesn't even do hyperlinks.

    Legitimately, even if you're going from Abiword to Word Perfect or similar, you'll get a better document transfer using MS Word .doc format files that you will with RTF.

    The closest things that exist to standard formats for word processing are plain 7bit ASCII text, HTML, and PDF.

    I don't know how good the MS Word "Export as PDF" function is, but that's probably the only way you're going to get near-universally viewable/printable documents out of MS Word.

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