Matthew Steven Kelly » Windows 7 http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:43:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Windows 7 Starter Edition http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/technology/windows-7-starter-edition.html http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/technology/windows-7-starter-edition.html#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:19:33 +0000 Matthew Steven Kelly http://www.matthewstevenkelly.com/blog/?p=638 Continue reading →]]> Recently purchased a netbook with Windows 7 on it a few weeks ago. I didn’t realize until I started using it the massive limitations of Windows 7 Starter Edition. This article articulates it pretty well: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/Microsofts-Windows-7-Could-Disappoint-Netbook-Users-Says-Survey-368762/

Even worse, when the netbook was first loading, they misspelled initializing as “Initailizing…”. My blackberry doesn’t take very good shots of LCD netbook screens, but here is the picture:

Windows 7 misspells initializing

Windows 7 misspells initializing as "Initailizing"

A coworker of mine is always talking about how great Ubutnu is: http://www.ubuntu.com/, and I do have an extra laptop to try it out on. So that seems like a nice weekend project.

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