Why netbook Win 7 Starter Edition

In news:hcfnbv$qag$,
Barry Watzman typed on :
> Re: "Those netbook users who wants the more expensive versions of
> Windows 7 and finds the Starter version as too limited, are offered
> inexpensive upgrade path (Windows Anytime Upgrade)."
>
> The "Windows Anytime Upgrade" is not an inexpensive upgrade path. In
> fact, in many cases, the cost of an "anytime" upgrade is more than 80%
> of the cost of just buying a copy of the edition being upgraded to. It
> is, in my view, an OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive upgrade path.

Really Barry? Windows 7 Starter costs 40 bucks and anytime cost 80
bucks. Which equals 120 bucks, which is the cost for Home Premium. So
you are getting two versions for the price of one.

--
Bill
Gateway MX6124 ('06 era) - Windows XP SP2

There were a number of postings which described, in detail, exactly what
was missing. At one time, there was a restriction that only 3 programs
could be open at once (but OS functions didn't count, and multiple
instances of the same program (for example multiple firefox browsers)
only counted as one), however I seem to recall that this was dropped.
Some of the missing items were things you would want (want; not
necessarily need). You'd have to find a current list to be sure (there
probably is such a list on the MS web site).


Larry wrote:
> Barry Watzman <> wrote in news:hcfn6r$qag$1
> @news.eternal-september.org:
>
>> Because of the price of the netbooks themselves (sometimes as low as
>> $199), MS has to offer an OS at much less than the normal price for a
>> "full" OS (and yes, the fact that the netbooks could use "free" Linux IS
>> a factor). But they can't let the netbooks have "full functionality"
>> for that price. So the have to create an OS version that can be sold
>> into that market, but which will still leave incentive to upgrade or buy
>> a more feature-rich product, and which won't compete with the
>> full-feature products sold at higher prices.
>>
>>
>
> So. What's missin'? Is what's missin' the stuff no netbook will ever use,
> namely Windows NT server functions?
>