Microsoft is preparing us for the Slice and Dice of Windows 7 ... Here's some chatter about the Starter Edition, sigh!

Obviously Windows 7 is going to get the same treatment as Vista, whereby they (MS) slice up the product in to different versions, making it more cost effective to own for those of us that type with one finger, don't know really use microsoft office much, and only run up to 3 applications at any one time. Fair enough, there must be a few folk out there that fit the bill!

It leaves me wondering what the heck is happening. This obviously is not just a marketing thing, but a long term strategy. Perhaps its being done to ready-us-up, soften us, for the cost of cloud computing and renting applications on a per-usage basis?

Anyways, copy\paste from the original article on PC Pro:

Microsoft's decision to limit Windows 7 Starter Edition to running only three concurrent applications could force up the price of netbooks in the UK.

The company announced last week that it was launching Windows 7 Starter Edition as a low-cost option designed specifically for netbooks.

Can you believe they are actually serious about restricting processes from launching if more than 2 are already loaded in to memory? An OS that restricts you in this fashion ... isn't this a first? Shouldn't Starter Edition be free if it's this crippled? Like, whats the point shaving $10 or so off the cost of this OS? Do they seriously think people will go out and buy a severely restricted\crippled OS just to save $10? Don't answer that, I think I the answer already and it saddens me !!!

Read the complete post at http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/r0b/archive/2009/02/10/most-users-only-have-2-applications-open.aspx