Windows 7 Starter Edition – 3 app limit to be removed?

May 23, 2009 Jim Connolly
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According to Microsoft insider Paul Thurrott’s blog, Microsoft has decided to do a U-turn and will now remove the “3 app cap” they placed on Windows 7 Starter Edition.

Windows 7 Starter Edition – 3 app limit

Initially, Microsoft said that users of Windows 7 Starter Edition, (which will be shipping on netbooks), could run a maximum of 3 applications; unless they paid for an upgrade. This was seen by many as a bad move and it appears Microsoft now agree.

At the time of writing this, the news has not been confirmed, but we expect it to be shortly.

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13 Responses to Windows 7 Starter Edition – 3 app limit to be removed?
  1. Greene.Consulting
    May 23, 2009 | 7:02 am

    WEll if that what would ship with a netbook they are really looking to cut them selff of that market Changing it would make some common sense but it also mean they will kill those running XP home on the netbooks now. Many will spitch to some other OS if the find something they like. I had one client that ran Linux for near 6 month before they found out it wasn’t MS OS. and they are happy with it .

    I seen report of peaople getting Mac OS to run on some of the netbooks . this could ne good market for Apple to look at to run rings around MS on some of theos systems.

    Now if we could just get MS to just put out 2 version of Win7 and not 7 or 8 we have more progress.

    GC

  2. Maximina Lowry
    May 23, 2009 | 8:13 am

    Windows 7 Starter Edition 3 apps | The Tech News Blog http://bit.ly/cdewd

  3. Chris Luzader
    May 23, 2009 | 9:29 am

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  4. Ghada Ahmed
    May 23, 2009 | 1:23 pm

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  5. podcastsctap10
    May 23, 2009 | 3:28 pm

    RT @thetechnewsblog: Microsoft to remove 3 app limit on Windows 7: http://bit.ly/PO2Hs

  6. John Durham
    May 23, 2009 | 3:28 pm

    RT @thetechnewsblog: Microsoft to remove 3 app limit on Windows 7: http://bit.ly/PO2Hs

  7. Mathew Underwood
    May 23, 2009 | 8:33 pm

    RT @thetechnewsblog: Microsoft to remove 3 app limit on Windows 7: http://bit.ly/PO2Hs

  8. bajanx
    May 23, 2009 | 8:37 pm

    RT @thetechnewsblog: Microsoft to remove 3 app limit on Windows 7: http://bit.ly/PO2Hs

  9. Jo Orange
    May 24, 2009 | 12:05 am

    RT: @thetechnewsblog Microsoft to remove 3 app limit on Windows 7: http://bit.ly/PO2Hs

  10. Bill Jones
    May 24, 2009 | 7:30 am

    RT @jmdurham: RT @thetechnewsblog: Microsoft to remove 3 app limit on Windows 7: http://bit.ly/PO2Hs #yyc #calgary

  11. Jacob Freedman
    May 27, 2009 | 2:19 am

    @TCFSHOW Speculation about Microsoft to remove 3 app limit on Windows 7: http://bit.ly/PO2Hs, from @thetechnewsblogthetechnewsblog

  12. Jacob Freedman
    May 27, 2009 | 2:20 am

    JGadFly@TCFSHOW Speculation about Microsoft to remove 3 app limit on Windows 7: http://bit.ly/PO2Hs, from @thetechnewsblog