If reports are accurate, networking has either been crippled or disabled entirely and they've stripped the OS down to such an extent, that only 3 programs can run concurrently.

So, if you have a firewall and an antivirus running at all times, (and with Windows you do; you really do) then you simply _cannot_ multitask.

If this is MS's much-touted response to Linux, they must *really* be hard up for ideas.

Just my 2-pice.

= v i s t a s p = bT Square Peg

P.S. Calling it "Starter Edition" was a baaad move... How long do you think before it's dubbed the Non-Starter Edition?

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<snip> I wonder what members of this list think of this development? India is not mentioned in the list of five countries, but I am sure it wont be long before MS looks at launching the low-cost XP version in India. </snip>