Microsoft Kills 3-App Limit For Windows 7 Starter Edition

Chabil Ha' writes "Heard the rumors that the much-maligned Windows 7 Starter Edition would be able to run more than three concurrent applications? Today, the Windows team made it official: 'Based on the feedback we've received from partners and customers asking us to enable a richer small notebook PC experience with Windows 7 Starter, we've decided to enable Windows 7 Starter customers the ability to run as many applications simultaneously as they would like, instead of being constricted to the 3 application limit that the previous Starter editions included. We believe these changes will make Windows 7 Starter an even more attractive option for customers who want a small notebook PC for very basic tasks, like browsing the web, checking email and personal productivity.' Small consolation, of course, if you want to watch a DVD natively, but I'm sure this won't stop the Slashdot crowd from enabling it."

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THIS JUST IN

[buttfscking]

Still not using it.

Re:THIS JUST IN

[Dragonslicer]

...they'll come back with a shopping cart full of poptarts and cereal.

I don't see anything wrong with that.

Re:THIS JUST IN

[mrsteveman1]

The premium edition 3 year olds have been able to stack fine China for a while now, it just requires a plug-in for stability and hand-eye coordination.

Re:THIS JUST IN

[Jurily]

I don't see anything wrong with that.

Except this time, the poptarts is from the Russians and the cereal is from the NSA.

Re:THIS JUST IN

[Anonymous Coward]

Its Microsoft Bob Version 7

Re:THIS JUST IN

[elashish14]

A better example is giving a 10-year-old a new Honda Fit and telling him to go to the store. Relatively cheap car, probably going to get banged up, but dispensable. The alternative extreme is giving him a Porsche 911, considerably more expensive, and telling him to go to the store without turning it (and himself) into a flaming heap.

Wait, I forget what we were talking about

Re:THIS JUST IN

[x2A]

NOTE TO ALL OWNERS OF A 3 YEAR OLD: This is a joke, please do NOT try plugging things into your child!

*phew* saved 'em

Re:THIS JUST IN

[cskrat]

I believe removing one's offspring from the gene pool still qualifies for a Darwin award under some circumstances. Perhaps anyone following such advise to the point of actually attempting to plug a 3rd party module into their children should be left to the methods and devices of natural selection.

 

//Only use OEM modules and plugins on children under 8.

Re:THIS JUST IN

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh that's easy - apples are crunchy and you don't eat the inside. Oranges are juicy and somewhat spongy and you don't eat the outside.

Re:THIS JUST IN

[shutdown -p now]

please do NOT try plugging things into your child!

Not that it helps much, they're trying to plug things into themselves all the time anyway. It's like aggressive plug-n-play with a range of several meters.

Re:THIS JUST IN

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

Not that it helps much, they're trying to plug things into themselves all the time anyway. It's like aggressive plug-n-play with a range of several meters.

And once they are teenagers half of them spend all their time trying to plug into the other half, it is a never-ending cycle.

Re:THIS JUST IN

[Nazlfrag]

You're right. We should continue the sensitive and respectful nature of the awards by presenting the parents with a trophy commemorating their childs achievements.

Re:THIS JUST IN

[sdpuppy]

For example, if you have a tiny cache or a badly designed one, your processor is going to keep hitting main memory, which wastes a ton of cycles, so most of the clock cycles will be wasted waiting for memory to respond anyway.

Yeah, sigh, that's what my girlfriend always tells me.

However in spite of that my memory responds quite well, thank you very much.

Sniff Sniff.

Re:THIS JUST IN

[rantingkitten]

Actually, it's more like Thomas Edison, who, as we all know, invented the light bulb. But what if instead of a light bulb, it had been a small child? And what if instead of "inventing" it, he set it on fire and slung it from a catapult? Would you then consider Thomas Edison to be a menace?

Re:Outbreak Of Sanity

[MichaelSmith]

At least someone realized that it was an epicly bad idea before the thing was released into the real world.

Maybe Microsoft are responding to competition for once.

Other suggestions that make about as much sense

[calmofthestorm]

* Disable the thing that shocks you with an electric shock every ten minutes (every thirty minutes if your OS validates as genuine)
* Remove the requirement to take, PCR, and compare a DNA sample at startup to allow WGA to know it's the same person
* Take that thing out of the EULA that allows MS to terminate your license or you at any time for any reason.

"Even more attractive..."

[lastomega7]

I don't get how it's "even more attractive"

MS: Ok so guys, you can only use 3 apps at a time on our new OS.
World: Well who would want to use that?
MS: Ok, we changed it back. Now it's even better than before!

Sigh.

Re:"Even more attractive..."

[artor3]

They've been studying at the Coca-Cola school of marketing, apparently.

Re:"Even more attractive..."

[MrMr]

You need to get new astroturfing instructions.
Head office has cancelled this feature and you're still advocating it.

"even more attractive"... what?

[Schraegstrichpunkt]

We believe these changes will make Windows 7 Starter an even more attractive option for customers who want a small notebook PC for very basic tasks, like browsing the web, checking email and personal productivity.' Small consolation, of course, if you want to watch a DVD natively

Wow. Microsoft basically took a market where Linux and Apple excel in (customers who just want to do basic tasks with minimal hassle) and crippled the features that make Windows even slightly attractive in that arena. Now they un-crippled one of those features. That's not "even more attractive"; That's "somewhat less ridiculous".

I have a new bullshit meter. It measures in units of "picosofts".

Re:"even more attractive"... what?

[MichaelSmith]

I have a new bullshit meter. It measures in units of "picosofts".

Hey, I might start using that.

I think they're finally listening to slashdot

[symbolset]

Time to stop posting so many helpful tips.

old news aside, windows 7 is amazing!

[Anonymous Coward]

I swear I read this like a month ago on /. but I guess it's just slashdot being slashdot. Anyway... I love Windows 7... It's my fav OS yet! There are a few kinks in it still but you won't notice them unless you are trying to massacre your machine and see what it can really do. What is crazier is that it operates so much better than XP and has a higher compatibility level than XP (also has XP mode for the adventurers)

It works so well (and the benchmarks show it) that we replaced XP Corporate 64bit at work with Windows 7. After many updates (including Adobe's updates) it never crashed once. I want to applaud Microsoft for finally doing something right. Aside with practically copying OSX with almost everything, they did a good job.

Now if only they could make only 3 Windows7 SKU's >: (

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[Legion303]

It's mighty big of MS to allow their customers to do what every other OS ever invented lets them do.