Windows XP Starter Edition Review

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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I am confused about this

[UltimaGuy]

Speaking with Wickstrand, and to a lesser extent actually using the system, provided me with a much clearer perspective about Windows XP Starter Edition, which is not the crippled dog that critics have described it as. Indeed, Wickstrand's story about the XP Starter Edition team and its dedication to actually meeting the needs of real users in disadvantaged parts of the world is quite inspiring. Far from its reported destitution, XP Starter Edition is, in fact, a triumph of cooperative product design, one that simultaneously meets the needs of users, governments, PC makers, and Microsoft itself. In my book, that's a win-win. As for the future of XP Starter Edition, I guess we'll have to wait and see how the pilot program performs. But from this point in time, with the pilot program just two-fifths of the way through a multi-month rollout, Windows XP Starter Edition looks like it has a bright future. It's just too bad that the ivory tower critics can't see beyond their own insular worlds to understand that truth.

--Paul Thurrott January 3, 2005

If a system that has no network support, can only open three programs, and has only 800 x 600 is not crippled, I don't know what is. I like to know what crack this guy is using...I want to stay a long way from it.
PS : And I don't see anything inspriring in this...if MS has given more features than XP Pro for less cost...that is inspiring !!! Anyone who has not RTFA, please don't.