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In an effort to capture more of the vital overseas-customers-who-don't-have-much-money market, Microsoft released localized versions of Windows XP Starter Edition in several countries, which is so dumbed-down and crippled that those of us who thought our low expectations of Microsoft could not be beaten were proven wrong yet again.

I'm trying to stop laughing so I can type this- among other "features" it runs only on budget processors like Celeron and Duron, only three windows at a time can be open, and the maximum screen resolution is 800x600. No, really! I am not making this up! It's all true!

None of the articles about this say if XP Starter Edition ships with impaired malware support, but I doubt it- expect full support for spyware, viruses, worms, Trojans horses, and random strangers who aren't even trying to crack the system. This is how they are going to compete with F/OSS in emerging markets. I ph34r.

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Comments (4)

salparadise ·
There's a saying here in the UK.

"Rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic."

Sort of says it all really.
peragrin ·
Quoting:There's a saying here in the UK.

"Rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic."

Sort of says it all really.


Not really, in Windows XP starter edition they also pulled two of the four engines, left it with the port prop only, and removed 50% of the Life rafts(remember the Titanic didn't have enough as it was).

Why? because your not supposed to be carrying that number of passengers on a ship that size.
tuxchick Story submitter ·
Oh yeah, and no networking of any kind, except connecting to the Internet- no sharing printers, no LAN....
sbergman27 ·
Actually, I think that there were two (4 cylinder?) main (steam) engines for the port and starboard screws respectively, and one low pressure turbine to drive the center screw, which scavenged energy from the main engines. (That, and the existence of freon based refrigeration for perishables are probably the two things about that series of ships that surprised me most when I first discovered those facts.)

As to the lifeboats, that, in my opinion, was the *real* tradgedy of the "Titanic" incident. They had enough lifeboats for 1200 people. The total number of people on the ship was about 2200. 1536 people died. 536 more people lost their lives than needed to. You see, although the Titanic carried too few lifeboats, the crew was not trained for an evacuation. They were afraid to fill the lifeboats to their true rated capacity. The boats went out with a widely varying number of occupants, the average being about 55% of rated capacity.

One can only hope that XP Starter Edition users fair better. (That last was only included to retain some semblance of relevacy to the original topic.)

BTW, I'm a Titanic fan. :-)

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