Tag: WINDOWS-7-STARTER-EDITION

The team of Microsoft developers working on Windows 7 have written a blog post spelling out exactly what features will and will not be available in Windows 7 Starter Edition. And the company has decided to drop one of the most talked-about restrictions: the ability to run just three applications at once. You'll now be able to run as many programs as your computer's limited RAM will allow. We ...

Microsoft has been offering a low cost, limited "starter edition" of Windows for customers in developing nations for a few years now. But with Windows 7, Microsoft will begin offering a starter edition in developed nations like the US for the first time. You won't be able to walk into a store and buy it, but it may come preloaded on some low cost computers like netbooks. It'll be up to each ...