Windows 7 Starter Edition is going to make more discuss annoyance and arguments amid user community after finishing many bitter discussions upon adding 3-App Limit to W7 starter Edition by removing it.
Although the feature of 3-App Limit looked very bad but it was not very bad at all because it didn’t include “services, anti-malware applications or Windows applets, nor did it include multiple instances of the same application.” SO if we look to this feature more carefult we will find no limitation because the guts of netbooks have no ability to run more than this kind of 3-application!
But the bitterer and more annoying part is the hardware and many software limitations that Microsoft is going to imposed roughly to netbook users.
Let me start from hardware part which I had mentioned in my previous entry too.
Microsoft (apparently with the corporation of Intel) is imposing rough hardware restrictions to netbooks which will be preinstalled with Windows 7:
- A maximum up to 10.2” screen,
-Only 1GB of RAM,
- Up to 250GB HDD hard drive or up to 64G SSD
- CPU must only be a single core and clocks up to 2.0GHz with no more than 15 Watts of thermal output
As you see these limitations are good mainly for Intel and not good at all for its serious rival VIA. Netbooks are gradually opening new path to hardware sector and giving them more room to grow. But Microsoft is stopping netbooks to become cheaper while offering bigger display with better performed CPU like VIA Nano available on Samsung NC20.
Laptop Magazine as mentioned a list of limitations providing by Windows 7 Starter Edition that I am mentioning briefly here:
1- lack of Taskbar Preview or Aero Peek
2- unable to change desktop backgrounds, window colors, or sound schemes.
3- unable to log off when switching between users
4- lack of support for Multi-monitor and DVD playback
5- no Windows Media Center app. And no remote Media Streaming
6- “Domain support for business customers”
7- there is no XP Mode. So it will be impossible to run older Windows XP programs on Windows 7 on the netbooks.
Among these limitations the feature of log off, XP mode and changing desktop background are the most problematic limitations that are coming to netbooks by W7 Starter Edition.
I prefer to adopt the 3-App Limitations and instead to get the feature of XP mode on W7 Starter when I know I will have to pay more for Windows 7 (as you know the average price of Windows 7 will be more than Vista).
Do you agree with me?
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