I'm Rob Marshall, a consultant who specialises in the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager product. I like to share, i do so by blogging and helping out when I can in the MS SMS newsgroups and participating in the ConfigMgr MVP program.
I was awarded and joined the program in 2009. It'd be an understatement to say it has to be one of the best experiences an IT engineer can have, if they really enjoy specialising in a product.
My biggest weapon for troubleshooting is, my formidable knowledge, no, only joking, you, the community. I find if I cannot answer a question, then I can usually find the answer from using Bing\Google, pouring over the documentation, and if that doesn't work, tinkering in mine or someone elses virtual lab.
The blogs pretty much about ConfigMgr, but it is also a platform for me to express my random urges to display something I've stumbled across, and that I imagine would entertain you or what not as equally as it did me.
Microsoft is preparing us for the Slice and Dice of Windows 7 ... Here's some chatter about the Starter Edition, sigh!
Obviously Windows 7 is going to get the same treatment as Vista, whereby they (MS) slice up the product in to different versions, making it more cost effective to own for those of us that type with one finger, don't know really use microsoft office much, and only run up to 3 applications at any one time. Fair enough, there must be a few folk out there that fit the bill!
It leaves me wondering what the heck is happening. This obviously is not just a marketing thing, but a long term strategy. Perhaps its being done to ready-us-up, soften us, for the cost of cloud computing and renting applications on a per-usage basis?
Anyways, copy\paste from the original article on PC Pro:
Microsoft's decision to limit Windows 7 Starter Edition to running only three concurrent applications could force up the price of netbooks in the UK.
The company announced last week that it was launching Windows 7 Starter Edition as a low-cost option designed specifically for netbooks.
Can you believe they are actually serious about restricting processes from launching if more than 2 are already loaded in to memory? An OS that restricts you in this fashion ... isn't this a first? Shouldn't Starter Edition be free if it's this crippled? Like, whats the point shaving $10 or so off the cost of this OS? Do they seriously think people will go out and buy a severely restricted\crippled OS just to save $10? Don't answer that, I think I the answer already and it saddens me !!!