Windows 7 Starter Edition
November11
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 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.
