Windows XP Starter Edition: attention, Mr. Bill Gates

[Al Smith]

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.

 

[Richard Urban]

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

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If you knew as much as you think you know,
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[Shenan Stanley]

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

Al Smith wrote

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.

I'm with-holding any definitive opinion at this point - as I have just
started researching it. However, I would like to point to a few sites with
relevant information..

Windows XP Starter Edition:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_starter_edition.asp

Windows XP Starter Edition Fact Sheet:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/newsroom/winxp/08-10winxpstarterfs.asp

What You Need to Know About Windows XP Starter Edition
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/44971/44971.html

Now you may be thinking "Well, that is horrid and useless as an OS!"
I agree.

Ability to run only three programs at once, 128MB MAXIMUM RAM, 40GB MAXIMUM
HDD space and only for "lower-end" processors.
I wouldn't use it. Counter-pointing myself - I wouldn't use Windows XP Home
at work... or Windows 9x/ME for that matter.. So is it really that I am
looking at this from my narrowed scope of usefulness? Or is it genuinely
worthless?

I don't live or work in the countries where this version of Windows XP is
being distributed - so I cannot judge the way they take such things or how
the piracy rate in these places is affected because of this, if at all. My
gut tells me most people who were pirating before will pirate now. So if
that was the only reason for the release (I don't believe it is) - bad move,
no doubt. The prices I saw.. ($30) - How much is that to someone that only
has a celeron 400MHz with a 6GB hard drive and 64MB of RAM and lives in the
target countries..

 

[kurttrail]

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.

Big opportunity missed. But MS, over the last five years or so, seems
to be doing everything it can to move as many people as possible off of
Windows as soon as there is a viable alternative OS.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall, and MS's fall is gonna be
nuclear, when a viable OS for the masses hits the market!

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[T. Waters]

"However, XP Starter Edition will not be made available as a standalone
product. Instead, it will only be bundled with new PCs that are localized to
the markets Microsoft is targeting."
Source: Shenan's link #1:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_starter_edition.asp

 

[NoStop]

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.

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

MickeyMouse has a history of crippling software. Just look how they crippled
XP Home, when it could easily have contained all that XP Pro has. In fact,
there was NO REASON, other than marketing, to even have a HOME version.
They could have just provided XP (Pro), lowered the price and sold just
that one product.

Read the history here of MickeyMouse and you'll see that this is its idea of
"innovation".

http://www.euronet.nl/users/frankvw/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html



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[NoStop]

Big opportunity missed. But MS, over the last five years or so, seems
to be doing everything it can to move as many people as possible off of
Windows as soon as there is a viable alternative OS.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall, and MS's fall is gonna be
nuclear, when a viable OS for the masses hits the market!

Yah, yah ... yawn ... broken record. The OS is here and has been for some
time. Tell me what you do with your computer that I cannot do with mine?
Just what do you use your computer for that makes it so terribly wed to
Windoze? I'd like to see your list of just what apps YOU MUST run on that
box of yours that only Windoze can run for you. Other than all the virus
and malware protection, which isn't required in Linux.

Seems like you spend most of your time in this newsgroup. Knode is a far
more capable newsreader than is OE.

Here's a list (although unfortunately a bit dated) of what's generally
available for Windoze and their Linux equivalents:

http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/table.shtml

Like I said -dated. Lots more great multimedia stuff available now that
blows away anything available for Windoze - and free, btw.

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[T. Waters]

MickeyMouse has a history of crippling software. Just look how they
crippled XP Home, when it could easily have contained all that XP Pro
has. In fact, there was NO REASON, other than marketing, to even have
a HOME version. They could have just provided XP (Pro), lowered the
price and sold just that one product.

Read the history here of MickeyMouse and you'll see that this is its
idea of "innovation".

http://www.euronet.nl/users/frankvw/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html

The article you cite is awesome.
Please continue to post the link. Every Windows user ought to know the
facts.

 

[kurttrail]

Yah, yah ... yawn ... broken record.

LOL! Thanks for the warning! If you know you are a broken record, why
to you keep going anyway?

The OS is here and has been for
some time.

Unfortunately, it is mostly a server OS and a OS for hobbyists. It
ain't ready for the average user, that has quite an investment in
software for the Windows platform. Or for those that don't know there
is a command line in Windows, let alone what to do with it. And Linux
is still too tied to it's command line.

Tell me what you do with your computer that I cannot do
with mine?

Watch HDTV with my ATI HDTV Wonder.

Run the most of the games and software that I've bought over the last
decade.

Just what do you use your computer for that makes it so
terribly wed to Windoze?

Dude, Linux builds that are put on CD will not even boot to the desktop
even with the hardware detection set to minimal on my PC.

I'd like to see your list of just what apps
YOU MUST run on that box of yours that only Windoze can run for you.
Other than all the virus and malware protection, which isn't required
in Linux.

Yet.

As a server OS where it is a major player Linux is more often hacked the
Windows Servers.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39116229,00.htm

Seems like you spend most of your time in this newsgroup. Knode is a
far more capable newsreader than is OE.

LOL! I only use OE with addons that make it a very good text-based
newsreader. For binaries, I use Agent.

And replying to ignoramuses and zealots take very little time at all.

Here's a list (although unfortunately a bit dated)

As is most of the Linux documentation I've seen.

of what's generally
available for Windoze and their Linux equivalents:

http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/table.shtml

Like I said -dated. Lots more great multimedia stuff available now
that blows away anything available for Windoze - and free, btw.

Since I can't even boot to a Linux live CD distro what good is freeware
equivilents of software that I'm already using with Windows on a OS that
don't work on my computer?

Now you are gonna blame me, or my hardware, but the fact is, the lastest
versions of Windows desktop OS and Server OS actually work with my
computer. Linux does NOT!

Linux is not ready yet as a Windows replacement for the masses, and
until it is, it will be a server OS and an OS of geeks and hobbyists.

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[NoStop]

kurttrail wrote:

Unfortunately, it is mostly a server OS and a OS for hobbyists. It
ain't ready for the average user, that has quite an investment in
software for the Windows platform. Or for those that don't know there
is a command line in Windows, let alone what to do with it. And Linux
is still too tied to it's command line.

Again, you don't know what you're talking about. I use Mandrake 10.1 here on
by desktop (and Fedora Core3 on my local LAMP server). I NEVER have to go
to a command line unless I want to, (because it is more convenient than
clicking my way through a GUI tool to get something done sometimes). The
whole system can be run without ever opening a terminal window. But a more
advanced user CAN use the CLI to get at even more powerful scripting tools
that makes Windoze command prompt pale in comparison.

Watch HDTV with my ATI HDTV Wonder.

I guess I couldn't use YOUR ATI HDTV Wonder. But if I wanted to install
MythTV here, I certainly could get HDTV with it.

http://wendy.seltzer.org/mythtv/

Run the most of the games and software that I've bought over the last
decade.

OK so dualboot to Windoze to run your games that are a decade old. There
are ways under Linux to run MOST Windoze games now.

See ... http://www.transgaming.com/ ... and pick your game here ...

http://www.transgaming.com/portfolio.php

Dude, Linux builds that are put on CD will not even boot to the desktop
even with the hardware detection set to minimal on my PC.

Forget Live CDs, which you obviously have a problem with and just install a
user friendly distro like Mandrake. Dedicate a small hard drive to it or
just let it automatically steal some space from your NTFS drive and dual
boot it.

Yet.

As a server OS where it is a major player Linux is more often hacked the
Windows Servers.

Bullshit. You wouldn't believe how many times a day my Linux webserver has
been attacked ... but never hacked. My logs show tons of scriptkiddies
dropping by trying to hack it thinking it's a Windoze box. Of course that
doesn't work either.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39116229,00.htm

"While Linux has long enjoyed a reputation for being more secure than closed
source operating systems such as Windows, its rise in popularity has also
made it a far more common target for hackers, a new study suggests."

First paragraph and already it looks like bullshit. It's "rise in
popularity" ... shit there are more Linux webservers on the Net than there
are Windoze ones. So it's becoming more of a target. But is it actually
being hacked more than a Windoze box? I think not. The Linux community
doesn't even concern itself with viruses or malware, unlike in this
newsgroup where every second message is a plea for help because their
computer has been hijacked or infected.

BTW, your website: microscum.com is running on Linux. When was the last time
it was hacked?

LOL! I only use OE with addons that make it a very good text-based
newsreader. For binaries, I use Agent.

As I said, Knode is much more of a newsreader than is OE, even with
"add-ons".

And replying to ignoramuses and zealots take very little time at all.


As is most of the Linux documentation I've seen.

It's NOT documentation you bozo. It's something a guy put together for
turkeys like you that think there's nothing available to run except Windoze
software. Linux documentation in general is FAR MORE informative than
anything you will find put out by MickeyMouse. Every Linux distro comes
with tons of documentation. And every Linux command comes with a manual
page that outlines the command in detail. Far more than M$'s so-called
"help".

Since I can't even boot to a Linux live CD distro what good is freeware
equivilents of software that I'm already using with Windows on a OS that
don't work on my computer?

Maybe in YOUR case, Linux is not for YOU. But you keep making these
statements that Linux isn't ready for the desktop. And that is just plain
false and an ignorant statement.

Now you are gonna blame me, or my hardware, but the fact is, the lastest
versions of Windows desktop OS and Server OS actually work with my
computer. Linux does NOT!

Linux is another OS! I'm sure that when you put together hardware for your
system you checked it out whether it would be appropriate for Windoze.
Luckly, MOST hardware will now run with Linux, right out of the box. The
drivers will install during the installation of the OS not after like in
Windoze. For MOST PC hardware, Linux will install without the slightest bit
of a problem and then will continue to work after that problem free. So for
MOST PC users, it is ready now for the desktop. That was my original point.

Linux is not ready yet as a Windows replacement for the masses, and
until it is, it will be a server OS and an OS of geeks and hobbyists.

Geez, there you go again! You just don't get it, do you? It is TODAY a
perfect Windoze replacement for MOST PC users. It would be really nice if
you'd stop spreading this Micro$oft FUD. It's very unbecoming for a guy
that runs "microscum.com".


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[NoStop]

As a server OS where it is a major player Linux is more often hacked the
Windows Servers.

Found this that I think you should read. Far more informative than the FUD
article you pointed to.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/

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[Michael Stevens]

In

LOL! Thanks for the warning! If you know you are a broken record,
why to you keep going anyway?


Unfortunately, it is mostly a server OS and a OS for hobbyists. It
ain't ready for the average user, that has quite an investment in
software for the Windows platform. Or for those that don't know there
is a command line in Windows, let alone what to do with it. And Linux
is still too tied to it's command line.


Watch HDTV with my ATI HDTV Wonder.

Run the most of the games and software that I've bought over the last
decade.


Dude, Linux builds that are put on CD will not even boot to the
desktop even with the hardware detection set to minimal on my PC.


Yet.

As a server OS where it is a major player Linux is more often hacked
the Windows Servers.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39116229,00.htm


LOL! I only use OE with addons that make it a very good text-based
newsreader. For binaries, I use Agent.

And replying to ignoramuses and zealots take very little time at all.


As is most of the Linux documentation I've seen.


Since I can't even boot to a Linux live CD distro what good is
freeware equivilents of software that I'm already using with Windows
on a OS that don't work on my computer?

<act like I snipped the above>

This is surprising. I wonder what piece of hardware is causing the problem?
Knoppix is a great tool and works on almost every computer I have tried it
on.

<and the below LOL>

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[Winux P]

After reading the link in its' entirety, how bad I now feel purchasing and
being forced to activate this product just so I can use it. What an insult
activation now seems. Even though I use a Linux distro as well (SuSE), I'll
never dismiss Linux users as wingers with out a solution any more
(previously I have in this news group), different kettle of fish I know. May
Microsoft Windows XP Pro and Home (and Server 2003) go off with the pirates
and use Factivation to get it working, knowing what the F stands for.

I don't hate Windows, I don't even thinks its' a bad OS after all. After
reading that webpage I can guess I'm one of those lucky persons that WinXP
and SP2 pro has never crashed on me and everything ends up working properly.
A feeling of distain tends to ferment in one after reading that article.
Great link NoStop, more than just a rant, and should be called something
other than IHateMS to get more serious users (licensees) and distributors of
the licence reading it.

You reckon Bill took the cake and ate it? See for yourself

http://www.microscum.com/bgzone/bgaando/

-Winux P.

: Al Smith wrote:
:
: > 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.
: >
: > 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
:
: MickeyMouse has a history of crippling software. Just look how they
crippled
: XP Home, when it could easily have contained all that XP Pro has. In fact,
: there was NO REASON, other than marketing, to even have a HOME version.
: They could have just provided XP (Pro), lowered the price and sold just
: that one product.
:
: Read the history here of MickeyMouse and you'll see that this is its idea
of
: "innovation".
:
: http://www.euronet.nl/users/frankvw/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html
:
:
:
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[kurttrail]

Found this that I think you should read. Far more informative than
the FUD article you pointed to.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/

It covers vulnerablities not actual servers being hacked.

And the Register as a credible source is like saying you are not a
Zealot.

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[kurttrail]

<act like I snipped the above>

This is surprising. I wonder what piece of hardware is causing the
problem? Knoppix is a great tool and works on almost every computer I
have tried it on.

<and the below LOL>

Tried it, v3.8.1, and it fails in about 5 seconds normally, and about 7
seconds with a failsafe boot that turnoff almost all hardware detection.
It is not a bad CD as it does work in another computer.

Now add that many average would have a hard time setting up and using
Linux on all the varying hardware, and add to that that every major
distro variation has different command line commands for things getting
updates, and the average user doesn't even know how to use the command
line in Windows, Linux is not ready for my mom, my personal messure of
the average computer user.

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[T. Waters]

After reading the link in its' entirety, how bad I now feel
purchasing and being forced to activate this product just so I can
use it. What an insult activation now seems. Even though I use a
Linux distro as well (SuSE), I'll never dismiss Linux users as
wingers with out a solution any more (previously I have in this news
group), different kettle of fish I know. May Microsoft Windows XP Pro
and Home (and Server 2003) go off with the pirates and use
Factivation to get it working, knowing what the F stands for.

I don't hate Windows, I don't even thinks its' a bad OS after all.
After reading that webpage I can guess I'm one of those lucky persons
that WinXP and SP2 pro has never crashed on me and everything ends up
working properly. A feeling of distain tends to ferment in one after
reading that article. Great link NoStop, more than just a rant, and
should be called something other than IHateMS to get more serious
users (licensees) and distributors of the licence reading it.

Waaaay more than a rant. This guy not only did a ton of research, but he can
really write. He puts most professional writers to shame, and his first
language is not English.
I agree, the title should be "The Microsoft Story," or something more
neutral, as it is an accurate and revealing history and not one you will
read in Time Magazine.
http://www.euronet.nl/users/frankvw/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html

 

[HeyBub]

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.

Maybe you should take marketing 101. It is universal practice, in most
businesses, to release the high-end model first. If people are willing to
pay $300 for a product, give them the chance. After the pool of everybody
who is willing to pay $300 is exhausted, lower the price to $200 and give
the next group a chance.

In recent decades, Polaroid was the exemplar of this technique.

If your universe of potential buyers is evenly divided between
$300/$200/$100 purchasers and there are 30 million of them, by initially
offering the product at $100 you lose (10million x $200 + 10million x $100)
or $3 billion.

Had Micros~1 done it your way, I, as a stockholder, would have pitched a
hissy fit.

[...]

My final remarks concerning Windows Starter Edition, Mr. Gates:
dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb.

Which is why it would probably be useless for you to apply for a marketing
position at Micros~1.

 

[NoStop]

Great link NoStop, more than just a rant, and should be called
something other than IHateMS to get more serious users (licensees) and
distributors of the licence reading it.

I agree that a renaming of the article would be more attractive in terms of
getting more Windows users to read it all. But, it is his "rant" and that
was his intention.

You might be interested in reading an article outlining the myths of the
Windows vs Linux security debates found here ...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/

This too should help you overcome your previous perceptions of "Linux users
as wingers".

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[Richard Urban]

I have read "most" the article and to a point, I agree.

But then again, tires have been round and made of a rubbery substance for
over 100 years. I guess there has been no innovation in tires either! Every
manufacturer borrows from someone else.

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[Bob I]

NoStop wrote:

This too should help you overcome your previous perceptions of "Linux users
as wingers".

That is "WHINERS"