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Windows XP Starter Edition Review

Posted by timothy on from the shill-game dept.

Digitalommm writes "Paul Thurrott has a story on the latest developments on Windows XP Starter Edition. There are some very good points that the Linux community could adopt. An example is end-user training videos such as how to use a mouse." This is an optimistic, even glowing look at the Starter Edition, which even for Thurrot was not available for unsupervised use, only demonstrated by Microsoft for him. (For using-a-mouse videos, I would suggest also Roblimo's book Point and Click Linux .)

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  1. This is perfect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    For the new headless $498 Dell mini.

    1. Re:This is perfect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I like Windows XP Home Edition.

      It is the most powerful operating-system for Pee Cees. It looks not as gay as Mac OS X by Steve B10 Jobs and has 1,0000,0000 times more softwares that the Linus-operating-system.

      Plus, it comes with every Pee Cee for free. People who have grown acusstomt to paying RatHat 699 $$$ or more can hardly beleive this when I consult them with my proffesional Internet- and Network-Service-Center and Security-Assesment-Bureau.

      I always tell them:
      "Windows XP Home Edition is all you can empower to leverage the outcome-bottomlime of your stickholder ... plus even more!"

      My customers usually are like: "OMG!"

      You should really try it one day; it has a very nice light-reddish color theme to hit your tastes.

      Thank you!

  2. Nothing to see here by Prince+Vegeta+SSJ4 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please let me know when the come out with Windows XP FINISHED edition, so maybe we have a chance at something better

    1. Re:Nothing to see here by Kenja · · Score: 2, Funny
      "Please let me know when the come out with Windows XP FINISHED edition, so maybe we have a chance at something better"

      But I cant read Finish, why would I want a Finished OS?

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    2. Re:Nothing to see here by Guppy06 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well, considering how they only just recently released Windows NT 4.0--Finished Edition, I'd say it'd take a while.

    3. Re:Nothing to see here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Ah, Slashdot: Where three million geeks get the joke, but it's the five who don't who feel compelled to post.

    4. Re:Nothing to see here by SquadBoy · · Score: 3, Funny

      apt-get install sense-of-humour

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  3. Using a mouse. by Antonymous+Flower · · Score: 3, Funny

    1. Position yourself under see through stairway.
    2. Wait for skirt wearing executive.
    3. Release mouse.
    4. Peek-a-boo!

    1. Re:Using a mouse. by psicic · · Score: 2, Funny

      3. Release Mouse

      Is that a euphemism?

      (Which brings us on to what exactly you mean in point 4 when you say 'Peek-a-boo'!!)

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  4. Mouse Usage 101 by CaptainBaz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Click here to find out how to use a mouse!

    What? Eh? Oh.

  5. I'm sorry... by Anita+Coney · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... but wouldn't you have to already know how to use a mouse BEFORE playing those videos?!

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    If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
  6. Re:Mouse Training? by stratjakt · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, well, the first VCR I bought (a Sony) came with an videocassette titled "How to set up and enjoy your new VCR!"

    We (my company) bought a CD-burner back when they were an expensive novelty. It had an external SCSI interface, and was single-speed, and the drivers that came with it were on.... You guessed it, CD.

    What're ya gonna do about it, nothing thats what.

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    I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
  7. Couldn't use it himself, found it easy to use! by hoborocks · · Score: 2, Funny

    The response from tech press and analysts was immediate and damning. Reports referred to XP Starter Edition as "cut-rate," "cheap," "crippled," and even "futile." All of those reports, however, are completely wrong. And it's a sad statement on the state of modern tech reporting and analysis that so many people could be so cynical about a product they have never seen and don't know a thing about.

    And yet he wasn't allowed to USE it himself - it was DEMONSTRATED for him.

    Yeah, that sounds a bit hypocritical. Ass.

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    AccountKiller
  8. Re:This could be dangerous! by nolife · · Score: 2, Funny

    What about a version of Bob for XP?

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    Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly.
  9. I can see it now... by Walkiry · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Double click this icon to see the help video about using the mouse".

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  10. Re:Max. 3 programs by earthforce_1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe this is a security feature - it can only run 3 spyware programs or worms at once.

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  11. Re:I wonder by hairykrishna · · Score: 2, Funny

    So that's what the version without product activation is really called. Here was me thinking it was "Corporate edition"

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    "Physics is to math as sex is to masturbation." -R. Feynman
  12. Re:mouse usage by FinestLittleSpace · · Score: 2, Funny

    did you look under the stairs?

  13. Re:The masses by ColaMan · · Score: 2, Funny

    be glad you don't work as a mechanic with people asking why their jaguar xp always crashes.

    something wrong with the drivers?

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    You are in a twisty maze of processor lines, all alike.
    There is a lot of hype here.