XP lite??

[redhippo]

ahh! a XP starter version? :yell:

Microsoft announced Wednesday it would offer a low-cost starter edition of its Windows XP operating system in Asia starting in October, as it strives to hold onto market share facing erosion from the open-source Linux system and software piracy............


http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/biztech/08/11/thailand.xplite.ap/index.html

 

[nonenone]

not much ppl will buy the starter version cause it has less features than the full XP.

 

[Ber|Art]

not much ppl will buy the starter version

But if you don't need those features? If you have a lot of features you can have a lot of problems, if you have only a few features less can go wrong

 

[aww]

Isn't this the one with limitation of only 3 program can run at once? Like if they have aim running and an anti-virus program with IE, they can't even open Outlook?

 

[QBert]

thats dosent sounds right aww... and microsoft will allwase be able to stuff up a product no matter how simple they make it Ber|Art

 

[redhippo]

not much ppl will buy the starter version

But if you don't need those features? If you have a lot of features you can have a lot of problems, if you have only a few features less can go wrong

i agree. and it wont take up mega- space too!!

 

[AdoptableDomains]

My guess would be the code would be the same, but maybe only some cosmetic differences so that we in the wealthier countries would not feel that they are getting a better deal....

Sort of like Generic and brand name drugs, same ingredients and works the same, but those who bought the marketing hype pay for the advertising.

...or the difference between an academic version and retail version software where the only difference is in the text of the license and the serial number and key.