Comments on: Windows 7 Starter Edition is a consumer PR nightmare http://arid.net/p26 Technology Innovation for Business and Life Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:08:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Thephon http://arid.net/p26/comment-page-1#comment-23 Thephon Sun, 20 Jun 2010 12:36:22 +0000 http://arid.net/?p=26#comment-23 this is rufff!!! this is rufff!!!

]]> By: brian http://arid.net/p26/comment-page-1#comment-5 brian Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:18:59 +0000 http://arid.net/?p=26#comment-5 Thats true, but would you use remote desktop on a netbook? I would assume MS admins would want a full version of Win 7 anyway and not be running a lite version. In a similar vain though, techies wouldn't be able to use a 3 app limit OS either. Most MS admins are doing so through their enterprise and would install the enterprise version of Win 7 on the machine, not the 'free' netbook addition that comes with it. At least, thats what i do. I wipe out whatever OS comes on a laptop and put a real (ie. full) OS on it. Thats true, but would you use remote desktop on a netbook? I would assume MS admins would want a full version of Win 7 anyway and not be running a lite version. In a similar vain though, techies wouldn't be able to use a 3 app limit OS either. Most MS admins are doing so through their enterprise and would install the enterprise version of Win 7 on the machine, not the 'free' netbook addition that comes with it. At least, thats what i do. I wipe out whatever OS comes on a laptop and put a real (ie. full) OS on it.

]]> By: paul http://arid.net/p26/comment-page-1#comment-4 paul Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:51:18 +0000 http://arid.net/?p=26#comment-4 I can't think of a computer I'd want to own that couldn't run Remote Desktop. Cut that out of an OS and MS admins shouldn't want to use it... I can't think of a computer I'd want to own that couldn't run Remote Desktop. Cut that out of an OS and MS admins shouldn't want to use it…

]]> By: Mark Wilson http://arid.net/p26/comment-page-1#comment-3 Mark Wilson Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:59:04 +0000 http://arid.net/?p=26#comment-3 I'm not convinced that this is a better way.<br><br>All of the discussion around Starter Edition's limitations is academic if we don't know how much the various editions will cost (i.e. the various product editions have been announced, but not the pricing). Who says that Starter Edition won't be free or low cost? The simple fact is that we don't know but, if Microsoft does make Starter Edition free, I can see the headlines already... "Microsoft caves to consumer demand for free netbook OS" - which of course would be a complete misrepresentation as that might always have been the intention.<br><br>From personal experience, even Ultimate runs fine on a netbook... so, if you can get on with Starter Edition then fine (the 3 app limit doesn't include quite a few things so it's not as onerous as it first sounds). If you can't get by with Starter Edition, then pay for an upgrade. And I wouldn't be surprised if many OEMs ship netbooks with Home Premium on (after all, it is the default consumer version for Windows 7). I'm not convinced that this is a better way.

All of the discussion around Starter Edition's limitations is academic if we don't know how much the various editions will cost (i.e. the various product editions have been announced, but not the pricing). Who says that Starter Edition won't be free or low cost? The simple fact is that we don't know but, if Microsoft does make Starter Edition free, I can see the headlines already… “Microsoft caves to consumer demand for free netbook OS” – which of course would be a complete misrepresentation as that might always have been the intention.

From personal experience, even Ultimate runs fine on a netbook… so, if you can get on with Starter Edition then fine (the 3 app limit doesn't include quite a few things so it's not as onerous as it first sounds). If you can't get by with Starter Edition, then pay for an upgrade. And I wouldn't be surprised if many OEMs ship netbooks with Home Premium on (after all, it is the default consumer version for Windows 7).

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