Microsoft reveals Windows XP Starter Edition boxes

[altezza Veteran]

Boxes look nice :)

[[Pirate]]

Wow, it looks like theyre doing a russian edition too.

[Xylene]

Seriously.. whoever thinks this is "cool" is absolutely ****ing insane. SE.. right, ****ty Edition. Microsoft is insane. It's not going to stop bootlegs at all.

[ToastGodSupreme]

I'm suprised no one has chimed in with a WinME reference/joke by now.

But wow... starter huh? Garbage really.

"Well Billy, you're getting a car. But it's a starter car. You can't drive faster than 15 mph, you can't drive with other people on the same road, you only get 2 radio stations total to choose from and no cd player or tape player."

Or little Billy could get a stolen car, that has all the features, and have it be cheaper than the starter car. Billy's buying the stolen car. He can always plead ignorance that it was stolen later in court if anything bad happens.

[kirk26]

Damn, the starter sets have better wallpaper than the pro/home edition!

[Muri Guri]

Everyone says it's crap but i know the day it's cracked and leaked on somewhere, everyone of you will go and take a look and maybe even use it because it's not bloated anymore.(i didn't want that movie maker or msn messanger or media player or.....)

[Xylene]

Everyone says it's crap but i know the day it's cracked and leaked on somewhere, everyone of you will go and take a look and maybe even use it because it's not bloated anymore.(i didn't want that movie maker or msn messanger or media player or.....)

You can make XP not bloated by killing the ton of services you don't need running and not using the craptastic visual styles.

[used]

Anybody else think this would be a great idea for your parents. I wish I could get this for mine :yes:

[Foodie Monster]

Just wait until it's released and a zillion hacks to re-enable those lost features appear... that's if they actually went to the trouble of re-writing the code and just REMOVED all the stuff beyond the limitations...

The only thing I could see useful about this is that it will run beautifuly on VirtualPC on my iBook G4. Other than that, this is the biggest piece of crap I've ever seen since... Windows 98 SE. No doubt. And I thought that Microsoft would never outdo itself in crappiness...

[markwolfe Veteran]

Why not? It's better to get people to bundle this rather than GNU/Linux or nothing at all.

I am sure that is what Microsoft is thinking! ;)

Plus, this is a nice way for them to squeeze extra dollars out of the low-end PC market by having this purchased and pre-installed, instead of "no OS" options.

[canadian397]

omg, no networking, microsoft your reallying ****ing up right now. This sucks! If the computers are cheap with Windows Xp Starter on it I'll buy it, format it and put Windows Xp Pro on it :p . Come on, 3 windows open at a time, no networking support, 800 by 600 maxium!? Holy **** this ****ing sucks.

GREAT JOB ****ING UP MICROSOFT!!

- Barret

(lol, a little anger can't hurt anyone :angry: )

[HPMCommander]

They're trying to gain back some linux users, but most likely they will fail.

[Foodie Monster]

You know, thinking about it, I think that the market it aims too ISN'T that off... and it is a FAIR product for them. The biggest problem is the Networking issue. I mean, you can't run it on a LAN? You can't access your home made LAN with it? That's just unfair. That's not playing nice.

[niksa]

I don't think that no networking would be problem for home users :wacko: Screen and 3 windows maximum on other hand sure will be :no: Idea is not bad at all, but I'm sure that M$ will screw it as it did with most of good ideas they had.