I have been browsing on the net a have seen that ms are doing another windows but a cheap 1 windows xp starter editon its gona be "" the cheapest 1 in the family requireing ex basic 233 or 300 mhz processors but being limited to only 800x600 personally i feel it would be better for ms to reduce the current versions of windows that it has i feel some people wouldnt use pirated windows me my personal idea on a fair price 4 windows would be between £100-£140

I like the idea of Xp running smoothly on a 233 mhz system.. However, I think all XP OS's are way overpriced... We have to spend so much money on an OS for it to crash and be buggy... PLus if your an IT person like me,, I have to worry about what software we put on. Example.. Terminal Emulation. PowerTerm. Mimics our UNIX server for a desk application. With this installed the printing in any application is screwy, You can print one page. But every other print after that a single line of Code. If I uninstall powerterm all is normal... Kinda odd you install a terminal app and the printer screws up. Good Ol MS

Limited to only 800 x 600? Hmm. Not too good, if you ask me. It sounds kind of, well, limited. Really, I think M$ shouldn't produce so many versions of the same operating system... it gets confusing. My 1+1 cents. -Andrew

Hi , just some musings: interesting price range £100 - £140 why? (remember most games are £35 - £40) shouldnt that be the range of price people pay? Nobody balks at the price of a pc or xbox game, but over that price copies galore appear why ? the market is there for the ilegit /grey copy. look at music cd/dvd prices they have fallen considerably in the last year because of increased competition in the shops eg asda/walmart and the d/l's who have 'persuaded' distributers to finally get real or go bust. dvd's were £25-30 now you can get 5 for £30 deals. secondly as were all one global ecconomy via the net currency differences make it difficult to keep margins artificially highin one country when you can simply order it over the net at a cheaper price. its all about supply and demand. $ vs £ vs euro & free trade. ps xp pro is currently around <£100 uk & home 'ed' £55 legit. only so called 'retail' versions cost more. & whats that all about? "retail"? lol! wait till China trade barriers disappear.... oh & theres always that Linux word . (O.O) scream ! lol (nice site nitro)

I have been working with XP starter edition quite a bit lately. It is a horrible idea, horribly executed. The best way to describe it is "crippled." Its worst, most onerous "feature" is that it imposes a hard limit on the number of concurrent user processes. In other words, you can only have a certain number of windows and/or applications open at the same time. If you exceed that limit (by trying to open a new window or application) you get an error message telling you to close windows before opening the new one. This, in my opinion, makes XP Starter Edition virtualy unuseable. And it certainly doesn't make it anywhere near competitive with other "modern" operating systems. Including the near-free pirated versions of XP that it is intended to compete with. "Really, I think M$ shouldn't produce so many versions of the same operating system... it gets confusing." Actually, I think they should do more of this. The task-specific versions of Longhorn they have planned are a good thing. Windows is monolithic, and contains far too many features (and code!) for most tasks. Especially server tasks. I for one would welcome a version of Windows that contains just the modules needed to run whatever task I need it for. My web/dns/domain/whatever server does not also need to be a file/streaming media/whatever server.

hey thnx 4 the input guyz/galz at some point ms wont be able to produce any more windows as ther will prob b a court order on them or somet4 monopolizin the market how do they sleep at night chargin what they do what extras do u get with retail boxed windaz anyway a box or a tree personally if i can i get OEMS cheaper legal and i avoid all that unnececery packagin id prb say id switch os ang go to linux,lindows or some other sort of os but there no gaurentee that all me software/drvers ^ games etc will run on an non ms windows

"no guarantee that all me software/drvers ^ games etc will run on an non ms windows" very true & the only reason ppl stay with M$. untill a sound stable platform (minimalistic or otherwise taking up imc's point) is released thats the way it will be for some time me thinks. any one tried xplite? & whats their experiance of this stripped version. regards