Re: Windows XP Starter Edition: attention, Mr. Bill Gates

This time I will have to agree with you guys on this foolish move!

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!


"Al Smith" <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'm reading Slashdot, as I often do, and I come across a story saying that
> the Windows XP Starter Edition won't run on P4 or Athlon computers. It has
> been deliberately crippled not to run on high-end machines. This merely
> confirms what has been obvious about Starter Edition since its inception.
>
> Bill Gates, are you reading this? This post is for you, Mr. Gates. Pay
> attention, now.
>
> Microsoft missed an enormous business opportunity with Windows Starter
> Edition. The basic idea was golden. Sell a lean, stripped down version of
> Windows at a lower cost. Brilliant! Everyone who complains about Windows
> bloat would have flocked to the stores to buy it. Everyone who needs a
> second copy of Windows on their second computer would buy it. Parents
> would buy it for their kids. People would buy it to run on older systems
> that have less resources.
>
> Then what does your company do? It shoots itself in the foot. In fact, it
> shoots off all its toes one by one.
>
> Microsoft deliberately *cripples* Starter Edition, insuring that no one in
> the world will want to use a copy at any price, or even for free. What
> would have been an enormous new source of revenue becomes an
> embarrassment, a sad joke. Do you think the poor folk in India are using
> Starter Edition? No, they are using pirated editions of XP Pro, just as
> they always have. You gave them *zero* incentive to change.
>
> My final remarks concerning Windows Starter Edition, Mr. Gates:
> dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb.


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