| scottie said: @ Gnizmo - You make the equally faulty assumption that Windows 7 Starter will NOT be readily available. Lets assume for the moment that you run an electronics retailer. You care not for providing people with computers that do what they want, you simply want to make as much money as you can. If Windows 7 starter is $50 cheaper than home premium - would you not want to make your company an extra $25 per sale, whilst selling your computers for $25 cheaper than your competitors? I also have googled this quite thoroughly, it seems odd that you would think I haven't. I assume of course that you are reading too much into this quote "According to Microsoft, you'll be able to run services (such as Windows Defender) in the background" Obviously, because the computer will not inherently know if it's a 'background' task (background being more of a human concept than a technical term) it will use some variety of White List - only programs on the White List will count as 'background services', which essentially means that MS has to approve any antivirus program that is to run on Starter as a background service. |
Indeed, Microsoft will have final say on which anti-virus programs will, or will not count as a background service. Of course that is just added incentive for various corporations to bribe Microsoft to be put int the "not an application," territory. I would have to find the quote I am talking about specfiically again, but it mentioned anti-virus by name.
Oh and the reason you don't do that is because it will piss off your consumers. Coke could use food coloring to make water look like Coke and then sell it for far cheaper and make a huge profit. They don't do this because it pisses off consumers and spreads bad word of mouth that cannot be repaired.
There is also the matter of disclosure I mentioned that you completely ignored. Microsoft is on the verge of, or actively being sued for the "Vista Ready" sticker non-sense. They have an all the reasons in the world to be completely on the level about the limitations of their latest OS versions.
Furthermore I am not making assumptions on how agressively Microsoft plans on pushing the Starter version. They are on record as saying that only 20% of the people who use Windows 7 will use Starter, and most of those will be netbooks. You are trying to make a mountain out of a mole-hill here. I am realtively certain you haven't done any reasearch based on what you have said in this thread. You contested XP Starter having the same limitation. Your thread title itself is entirely misleading, and your specific reasons why this is bad keeps changing.
