Windows 7 Starter Edition Drops Three App Limit

Author Gordon Kelly
Published 25th May 2009
Windows 7 Starter Edition Drops Three App Limit
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Microsoft has already confirmed netbooks can run any Windows 7 version but it now looks like the basic version they will be supplied with will be much better than we expected...

In a very short post Paul Thurrott's specialist Windows site has reported Microsoft will remove the ridiculous three app limit proposed for the Windows 7 'Starter' edition. Up until now Microsoft had stated it was going to enforce this restriction to assist low power systems.


Of course such an approach was nonsense considering users would, for example, have had to close one of either their web browser, email or word processing programme just to open something like the calculator, notepad or Minesweeper. That is without addressing applications that load when the system boots up.

Microsoft has yet to come out and confirm the news, but so widely reported is the change that it seems a certainty now. Whether this dose of logic will also see it discard Starter's other daft restriction: that of locking the desktop wallpaper, remains to be seen...

*Seriously Microsoft. Really?*

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via Paul Thurrot's SuperSite for Windows

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comment Gordon said on 25th May 2009

@basicasic - that's why I worked over the Bank Holiday weekend to get it written up. There'll be an article tomorrow going up about those the new Windows 7 netbook stats ... more

comment Kanu said on 25th May 2009

Realistically how much multitasking can one do on any Windows OS on a device of this type. I think it is limited anyway.

If you really want to go nuts on poky device... more

comment basicasic said on 25th May 2009

@Gordon - sorry matey. Wasn't implying any critisism of you or your report. Everything is done to death on Slashdot. Just adding what extra info I had gathered. Enjoy your bre... more

comment gareth edwards said on 27th May 2009

DOH! Why don't they just have 1 home version and 1 business version? I really don't get the way that M$ do their OS delivery - keep it simple, have a home edition where y... more

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