Pu-leeze, Duaine. That is olds (as opposed to news.) And it's outdated information. M$ has ditched the 3 app limit for Win7 Starter Edition. Paul Bruesch Stillwater, MN On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Duaine & Laura Hechler <dahechler at att.net>wrote: > NetBooks originally came with Linux. > > In order for MS to compete, they decided to come out with a "entry > level" Windows 7 (VISTA's follow-on). Which sounded good from the start > > HOWEVER > > in order to make it work, MS crippled the OS enough to allow - ONLY - 3 > - programs to run at the same time. > > ------------- > > This may be a little late for some of you - but - > > If you have a laptop with VISTA on it - you may be locked into VISTA ONLY. > > One of my son's friends has a VISTA laptop and the hard drive crashed > (from viruses). From all the horror stories, he really wanted to go back > to XP. So my son tried to load XP - could not get it to even start to > load. They called to manufacturer (HP ? ) and found out, OH!, that model > laptop was designed for VISTA and VISTA ONLY. > > -- > Duaine Hechler > Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ > Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding > Reed Organ Society Member > Florissant, MO 63034 > (314) 838-5587 > dahechler at att.net > www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com > -- > Home & Business user of Linux - 10 years > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090618/fb9e36fc/attachment.htm>
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