Paul Thurrott of SuperSite fame originally broke the story that Windows 7 Starter Edition would no longer be limited to 3 applications running at a time. Now today we have confirmation from Microsoft that this is in fact true. When it comes down to the actual details, Starter Edition is more like a crippled Windows [...]

Microsoft has been trying to convince people that Windows 7 Starter Edition is different, and today they may have.  Paul Thurrott has posted (albeit briefly) that Microsoft has removed the 3 application limit and hopefully we will get a confirmation next week on whether or not this is true. One thing is for sure with [...]

Sometimes Microsoft’s marketing schemes really surprise me and the newest one with Windows 7 and Netbooks takes the cake.  The idea is to sell Windows 7 Starter edition to Netbook manufactures instead of a subsidized Windows XP.  This might sound good on paper as Starter edition tends to be cheap and run on limited hardware. [...]