Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Windows XP Starter Edition off to Slow Start

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the piracy-still-an-easy-sell dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft may have started shipping its cheaper version of Windows in Asia, but getting support for its low-cost computing vision is still very much a work in progress. It seems Starter Edition has not gained much interest from vendors, nor has it generated much interest from end users." I haven't seen any sort of consumer research, but I imagine people don't like to have their number of possible network connections restrained by the host operating system.

11 of 368 comments (clear)

  1. Considering... by Mysticalfruit · · Score: 5, Funny

    That any machine they buy probably has the pirated full version of Windows XP already installed, or it can be found on the street for 5 dollars...

    --
    Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
  2. They could just sell win2000 for $5 by cheekyboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    How many billions has win2000 made? surey they could just sell that for $5 as is on a cheap cd, no box.

    They could retro fit the XP theme into 2000 and call it XP-$5 edition :)

    --
    Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
  3. Irony... by Robotron23 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The "starter" software near enough fails to get started itself!

  4. Losing to another version... by levitater · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's called Windows XP Asian Street Corner Edition. Available either free or next to nothing in most metropolitan street corners in Asia.

  5. I tried to use it by snuf23 · · Score: 5, Funny

    But when the desktop came up it said I couldn't run anymore programs besides gator, hot bar and virtual bouncer.

    --
    Sometimes my arms bend back.
  6. Re:Bad Marketing by Otter · · Score: 4, Funny
    Maybe in the coming days of Longhorn, Microsoft should sell a standard Shorthorn version, with built-in limitation.

    They're having a dispute now with the EU over the naming of the mandated WMP-stripped version of Windows.

    Microsoft (who admittedly would have a hard time making a sincere effort to market a product whose only feature is reduced functionality) wanted to call it something like "Windows XP Crippled". The EU is demanding that it be renamed something more like "Super Better Euro Windows".

    --
    What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
  7. Re:Bad Marketing by TiggertheMad · · Score: 4, Funny

    My guess is Microsoft needs a new CEO if it is to become an interesting company again. I wouldn't be surprised to see Ballmer step down one day after a fight with institutional investors. The big question: Who is the right person for that job?

    Linus, Duh!

    With Linus's commie-granola eating hippie mentality and programming genius, and Bill's influence, money, and evil, they will be eeeennveeenceble!

    --

    HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
  8. Re:Bad Marketing by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 4, Funny
    My guess is Microsoft needs a new CEO if it is to become an interesting company again.

    How about Bernard Ebbers? I heard he did a great job turning Worldcom around. I wonder what he's up to these days?

    --
    If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
  9. Re:Bad Marketing by ggambett · · Score: 4, Funny

    After seeing Windows XP, I guess it will be Windows :_(

    --
    My website
  10. Re:Bad Marketing by hawk · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe in the coming days of Longhorn, Microsoft should sell a standard Shorthorn version, with built-in limitation.

    Ah dunno 'bout where you come from, son, but after we installs a "built-in limitation" on a longhorn, we calls it a "steer" . . . :)

    hawk

  11. Re:Bad Marketing by fred+fleenblat · · Score: 5, Funny

    >> My guess is Microsoft needs a new CEO ... Who is the right person for that job?

    I think Carly Fiorina is available.