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XP Starter Edition Examined

Posted by michael on from the windows-with-training-wheels dept.

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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  1. Microsoft's new slogan... by Misch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Microsoft: Where don't you want to go today?"

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  2. like a fine brandy... by flacco · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ...the warm glow of satisfaction spreads from my solar plexus to the extremities of my being... the knowledge that no matter how bizarrely and contrivedly the redmond monkeys dance and fling their crippled poo at the walls, it makes absolutely no difference to me.

    thank you RMS, thank you linus, thank you to all the dear, magnificent people who have changed (and are changing) the world for the better.

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    pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
  3. Re:But of course by John+Courtland · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Better work of your FP skillz

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