Windows 7 'Brain Dead Edition' (aka Starter Edition)

"To follow their thinking to its logical conclusion, what should then happen is that the consumer gets fed up with the lemon they have purchased, and will then give Microsoft even more money to "upgrade" to a non-crippled version of Windows 7 - and in this case it is an even better deal for Microsoft because they certainly will charge the end user a higher price than they would have charged the netbook OEM in the first place, and they don't have to share any of this money with the OEM."

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