In an apparent effort to compete against both Linux and pirate copies of their own software, Microsoft has created and released a “Windows XP starter edition” of windows.
Ironically in an effort to remove features that XP home and Pro take for granted, they have also removed many of the features that make the Linux competition particularly attractive.
The Starter edition has no home networking, a limited (small) screen resolution, and can only open three applications at a time, and any application can only open 3 windows at once, and you can only have one user account on the system. In other words, they have removed all the features that Linux does better then Windows. And this is supposed to compete? I can see the logic here (not), pirate copies of the real Windows goes for $4 dollars in the countries that Microsoft will be selling the starter edition, Linux is generally free, and both are un-restricted. So Microsoft thinks that producing a version of Windows (which will be sold for around 30 dollars) that is extremely limited will cause these people, most of whom have very little money, to jump for joy that they can run 3 whole applications at a time.
I’ve just had a thought, this is Windows, so one application would have to be an anti-virus application, and another would have to be an anti-spyware application, and the third would be the “Blue Screen Of Death” That doesn’t sound that different from normal Windows. 🙂
Regards
Franki
