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Windows 7 Starter Edition — 3 Apps Only
CrustyFace writes "Cybernit reports that the Starter Edition version of Windows 7 will only allow the user to run 3 applications at once. Targeted at notebooks, this doesn't seem like such a bad limitation, however it is a bold move from Microsoft, and it will be interesting to see how the operating system sells."
In response to the announcement of Microsoft's innovative 3-application limit, Apple corporation has said it will release a version of OS X that will allow only one application to run at a time, but in a more friendly and artistically enhanced environment than Windows Reduced Vista(tm.) Apple announced the special version late Sunday evening, at a special event entitled "You're the One." Steve Jobs emerged from his semi-retirement to explain how Apple's invention of this one-to-one relationship between users and applications would "revolutionize computing." Jobs stated that the new OS would also herald a return to the one-button mouse, single monitors, and Apple's new "One-at-a-time" network stream technologies.
Overnight, the Linux community, leveraging its well known security advantages and high speed development based upon open source and developers active in all time zones at once, has released a beta of "Linux Zero", which they claim is the most secure operating system in the world, and the least confusing, by virtue of its enforcement of zero applications running. Linux authority Linus Torvalds said "if an application can't run, it can't bring worms or viruses into the system. In addition, user interaction is now limited to pressing the power button." Waxing optimistic, he went on to say that "We think even Windows users can learn to do this." He told this reporter "In fact, the price is zero, too!"
An unconfirmed rumor also developed this weekend of an OS that is so carefully and explicitly restricted that consumers interaction with it is limited to attempting to install it; as the rumor goes, completing the installation requires permissions that users simply do not have available to them. Such an operating system would provide the ultimate consumer safety net. When asked to comment, both Jobs and Torvalds derided the rumor as being propaganda. Both OS mavens insisted that technology wasn't up to such a challenge yet. The rumor, however, persists.
When contacted by the press for comments on these new developments, Intel explained that multi-core processors were designed specifically for reduced application counts. It is only now that the leading OS manufacturers are revealing their deep strategies for the decade of 2010 that Intel is able to comment on the real rationale for multiple cores. Technical Leader Sanji Ramahasmiran" laid out several reasons why systems with few- or single-application loads would benefit directly from multiple cores. He said "Our new 8-core dies will allow switching the same single task cyclically from one core to another, thus reducing the activity levels to 1/8th that of single-core designs and operating in a greener fashion, contributing less to global warming, and simplifying programmer APIs in any properly designed operating system."
Simply as a personal observation, I always enjoy seeing how competition ensures that corporations compete for the marketplace by leveraging their core competencies and working to out-do one another. The end users always benefit. No matter who your favorite OS manufacturer is, the industry finds a way to work to bring you the latest developments. Isn't technology wonderful?
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
should be enough for any Dell.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
one of them will be the System Idle process. Naturally. That's the one that hogs 98% almost all the time.
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wow, wish i had modpoints for that.
snark, wit, and insight.
turn up the jukebox and tell me a lie
Would Chrome be limited to two tabs? (One for the host window, two and three for the first two tabs.)
Chrome and Firefox count as 4 applications each, and thus can't run.
svchost.exe
svchost.exe
svchost.exe
There, you've used up your allotment of three apps.
Cause Microsoft fanbois still think this is a myth.
This is my sig. There are many like it but this one is mine.
>Why are they deliberately fucking up their OS?
A question asked by many ever since Windows ME.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
I am using beta Windows 7 CXP (Crippled Experience) so applications are defined by items in taskbar. I can't tell more because they also limited per app keystro
839*929
VMware with 3 more versions of Windows 7. AH-HA! Beat you at your own game Micro$oft!
Do you really think MS did not think of that ....
VMWare server, the free one, requires
1) VMware Auth Service
2) VMware DHCP Service
3) VMware Host Agent
4) VMware NAT Service
5) VMware Server Web Access
Plus the viewer app to connect to the VM makes six
I can see it already:
:)
Windows User: Ahhh, my computer won't run a damn thing
Tech: That is because your Computer has been infected with three spyware programs....
Windows User: Can you fix it?
Tech: Sure, I just need to reload your OS because your fucking OS won't allow me to run the Spyware remove program due to its max Program limit
Windows User: Fuck that, I am going to purchase a MAC
yep, win win but not Windows Windows
So when you install your printer and it puts 5 background processes on your PC you are pretty much screwed.
Windows 7 twitter edition?
All documents limited to 140 characters.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
If I try to run more than 3 apps under Vista, I run out of memory.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
This will likely be the most secure and stable version yet. Running only 3 apps will reduce opportunities for BSOD. If trojans, malware, and viruses are considered applications, then they can't run due to the 3 app rule. Sounds like a stroke of genious!
"You can't really dust for vomit" --Nigel Tufnel
*Limit applies to non-Microsoft(TM) applications only. Please purchase and run all the MS stuff you desire.
Void where prohibited by European Union.
Wait, what, you mean it's stupid to be outraged over the development and sale of products which don't meet your needs to people with different needs than you? How can this be?
Try not to take me more seriously than I take myself.
I have a media player, an internet browser, an IM client AND my e-mail application open AT THE SAME TIME!!!!
I'M A POWER USER!!!!!!!!
Status, brother.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I had this issue with my Windows Mobile 5 phone a couple of years back, with the worst part being that it would cause the whole "phone" part of the phone to fail entirely (but not obviously); when I got fed up and called support, they said "just reboot the phone once a day and you'll be fine". That's the fucking fix, seriously?
When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat? -C. Palahniuk
No, they'll make a special exception for trojans. They don't want to confuse their users with to different a user experience.
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
No sh!t, Sherlock! Congratulations on discovering the concept of a business!