Microsoft To Drop The Three App Limit From Windows 7 Starter Edition
Finally, some good news about Windows 7. According to Paul Thurrott, from the SuperSite for Windows blog, Microsoft will remove the three app limit from the Windows 7 Starter Edition for netbook. This is not official yet, but if Microsoft will indeed remove the limit then we don’t really understand why they put it there in the first place.
We can hardly wait for the Windows 7 Starter Edition to become available, and i’m sure it will be great to listen to music, chat with your friends on IMs, browse the Internet to read our news, and tweet using 3rd party apps for Twitter. Now that we removed one limit, we have to remote the other one, but how do we convince Microsoft to let us change our background desktop wallpaper? Maybe Steve Ballmer will realize that this is a really stupid decision, and we will have the possibility to put on our desktop everything we want.
via SuperSite
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- Dragos Pirvu
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This isn’t news, XP Starter and Vista starter were both limited to low resolutions, and 3 open applications (each of which can open, I believe, 3 windows) at a time. Further, the Starter editions are a (feeble) attempt to slow down piracy in developing countries, where most people aren’t going to pay full price (or any money, really) for a normal copy of Windows. Starter has *not* been sold in any of the major markets (US, Western Europe, Japan).