Windows 7: cruel limits for netbook owners

At Microsoft, your potential is their passion. Unless you?re passionate about owning a low-priced netbook, which hurts Microsoft?s bottom line. Netbooks are the only segment of the PC market growing, and while netbooks installed with Windows are good for the ubiquity of Windows and power of Microsoft, they deny Microsoft money that might have gone on more expensive, premium editions of Windows on notebooks and desktops.With Windows 7, out as a release candidate this week and next, Microsoft hopes you?ll succumb to a Jedi Mind Trick: that you?ll buy a netbook with a version of Windows 7 that will only let you run three applications simultaneously and that won?t have a media player or simplified networking, but that you?ll like Windows 7 so much you?ll then want to buy a notebook or desktop running a full version of Windows 7.


And Microsoft wonders why European regulators are so willing to see the company in court. But then, hey, they are a bunch of latte-drinking, European socialists - what would they know about liberty and the spirit of free enterprise, the hallmarks of capitalism and Microsoft?

Source: The Register