What can $3 get you?
Filed in archive Linux For Windows Users by Rom Feria on April 20, 2007

and Student 2007, Microsoft Math 3.0, Learning Essentials 2.0 for Microsoft Office and Windows Live Mail desktop, all for US$3. This offer, however, is only available to governments and students from emerging countries. Sounds great, right? Hang on... it gets better.Windows XP Starter Edition is crippled in such a way that you can only use three applications and three windows per application running concurrently. Wait, there's more:
Further simplification of the operating system includes setting a maximum display resolution of 1024x768 and no support for PC-to-PC home networking, sharing printers across a network or more advanced features such as the ability to establish multiple user accounts on a single PC.
It gets even better... Windows XP will be retired in 2008. So, where does that leave those who pay US$3 then? Back to the stone age? :)
Why would you want such an unusable software package? So, put your US$3 to good use and donate it to your favorite charity and get Linux - everything you need is included for free! :)
For me, US$3 can get me a venti-sized java chip banana frap lite without whip from my favorite coffee shop. :)
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