Microsoft confirms that Windows 7 Starter will run more than 3 apps

kent " some yahoos at MS " No. The Microsoft/Yahoo! merger didn't go through. And speaking of yahoos (those who've read Swift will get the reference), apparently you can lead a horse to water...

"If a user buys an ultra low price netbook they accept they're not getting some options in exchange for the ultra low price. If they have the choice of buying upgrades that add the options they want that's a good thing and gives them the choice to buy what they need." This really goes beyond the 3 app limit in the Starter version. With the exception of "Ultimate" all versions of Windows are crippled to some degree. In actuality even Ultimate is crippled by the fact that it never delivered everything promised(animated desktop wallpaper). Another case of Marketing talking out of turn, and asking the programmers later if it can be done. A common theme in Dilbert.

kent909 You might wish to avoid comments where you're missing the expertise. Note "And speaking of yahoos (those who've read Swift will get the reference), apparently you can lead a horse to water..." You might want to look up yahoos in Swift's Gulliver's Travels. (Apparently the joke was too hip for the room - or at least part of the room)

In the true spirit of America things have turned from commenting on a policy to making personal attacks against the person posting. I was a PC user for 22 years and now I use a Mac. Not because I don't like Windows, I just like the Mac. I will admit I was repeating something I "heard" regarding animated wallpaper. It is not so important, that I saw the need to confirm it. My bad. I think the following decisions by Apple were also stupid. Using only AT&T as a provider for the iPhone. Putting an inferior camera in the iPhone. Being lame in it's censorship of the App store. Being unfair to developers in restricting their ability to share development knowledge. Apple is not perfect or without it's own bouts of stupidity. So either it was inferred or from past postings that Shark47 was aware that I use a Mac, however no where in this post did I ever make a comparison that OS X was better than Windows because of the limitations MS puts on the product. So Shark47, if I choose to make a statement that there is something wrong with you if you use Windows or admire Gates or Ballmer too much, then feel free to make post like you did. Until then "move away from the keyboard".

" mikegalos@msn.com said: Webguy " It's a price you pay for cheap - cheap always costs something." Like having to use at&t with your iPhone and having an at&t carrier logo in the upper left corner of the screen in exchange for being too cheap to buy an unlocked, unsubsidized version?" Huh? I thought we were talking about Windows.

@WebGuy - You'll notice that for a Windows Evangelist, mikegalos is awfully obsessed with Apple...kinda weird, really. Maybe that is what headquarters told him he had to do. --tayme