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By Nate Mook | Published July 29, 2005, 11:22 AM
Touting the success of its anti-piracy campaigns, Microsoft senior VP Will Poole said on Tuesday at the company's annual Financial Analyst Meeting that over 100,000 copies of Windows XP Starter Edition have been sold. The slimmed down OS is now available in 22 countries and six languages.
Starter Edition was first introduced last year and was recently expanded to all of Latin America. The idea of the program is to make available a low-cost version of Windows in areas with high piracy rates. "We feel very good about how this has gotten going, and we have I think a lot of good opportunities ahead of us as we work closely with local governments and others who want to bring PC technology to first-time PC users," said Poole.
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|Besides the discussion about "Pro" is better than "Home" - this is just another gesture of the rich throwing some bread crumbs to the poor.
Richness obliges - socially. No matter what crap is going on in Germany these days, this they have in their constitution. And to me this is simply one of the last - important - worths besides money making we have nowadays.
MS wouldn't loose anything if they sold their products on a levelled basis to any poor people. Nor would any huge trust in the rich world. To the contrary - they would gain respect on a field that is more important than just a lot of money: the human relationships.
Come on, MS! you make enough money to support the poor in a much more dignified way for both, you and the poor.
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|Piracy? I don't see how this is supposed to combat piracy...
The headline should read:
"MS Enjoys Lukewarm Succes in Squeezing Linux out of Developing Markets".
Pirated MS gear is very readily available in all of these countries, and in all of these countries the government's quite happy for it to be available, because it helps develop skills that would otherwise be out of reach.
If MS was really committed to helping third world countries it'd offer lower prices on MS Home(which is an entry level offering), and it wouldn't make a point of hindering development by unfairly retarding competition.
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|I have always wondered, can I network more than 5 Windows XP Home computers?
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|Most of the Windows XP piracy involves the Professional VLK edition; because there is no activation requirements. I don't see the retail package in the usual places often any more. There isn't much need for the Home Edition upgrade which circulated a few months ago...
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|Oh my... Who even really cares? FireFox and Opera have sold more than this in that limited time frame...
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|"over 100,000 copies of Windows XP Starter Edition have been sold"
I would like to point out that Microsoft Bob sold over 1 million copies on its way to being labelled a failure and sentenced to a life of ridicule.
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|If you are wiley enough, you can even get IIS/SMTP installed on XP Home.
The only thing I wish Home had was a better way to manage permissions.
Other than that, the difference is near nill
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|Yeah, but who would pirate a limited version of XP? Seriously I haven't seen numbers but I can guess that Windows XP Pro is pirated far more than Windows XP Home. Why? Pro is "bigger and better" than Home, and is almost just as easy to get as a pirated XP home copy.
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|There is really only one difference between the two; and that is hardly what I would call bigger and better. If people want to pay the additional $100 for the addition of networking support, then be it. Home does everything that Pro does. People only beleive that they are getting something more with Pro, but don't use any more features than they would if they owned Home. The business environment and IT professionals are the only people that will take advantage of it features. Hey, many people do set up XP Pro in their home, but not because their use dictates it, but more because of bragging rights not because they actually use it.
I encounter several people in my business that give the sam BS rationale of owing a copy of Pro. Though they have access to their business networks at home, they rarely use it. (to get email) There are other ways of doing that.
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|Oh Pro does way more than Home does (and yet not as much as Windows Server 2003)
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article10-002
I also don't have it for braging rights, I just didn't want to have a crippled OS.
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|Just a few differences. lol The code on the CD is not the same. I know there are registry hacks to try and make them the same. I know you can install the Backup utility. To minimize the network enhancements to pro as just a small difference is quite a pathetic move to create your arguement. XP Pro has many features that home does not. User management within the Kernel is quite different. In Home addition many of the user accounts actually share properties in between them. In Pro Each user has it's own completly seperate profile. (Media Center is based off Pro despite what the Microsoft.com site tells you)
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|No! Networking! You can setup Home and Pro the same, with some tweaking, but the difference is networking!
Home is not a crippled OS! You just need to know how to set it up.
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|You are talking about networking you idiot. That is the only difference!
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