XP Starter Edition Examined

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.'"

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Anyone with half a brain would pick classist, because it actually has some relevance. (I suppose race sometimes has relevance, but only as a coincidental overlap with class) It's been "proven" that Mac users are smarter, and the most significant reason is that because they tend to be more expensive, and not as affordable to people without higher education. The same could apply here: people with miniscule budgets are going to be, on average, less intelligent than those with bigger ones. [insert penis joke here] ....except for the fact that the entire *economy* in Asia is much more crappy than in places like the US. So even the really smart ones will have a hard time affording a more expensive version. So Microsoft really doesn't have a "pick" - they're being pretty racist here.