{"id":17,"date":"2004-08-11T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-11T06:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pgregg.com\/wp\/2004\/08\/microsoft-xp-retarded-edition-to-be-launched\/"},"modified":"2004-08-11T07:57:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-11T06:57:00","slug":"microsoft-xp-retarded-edition-to-be-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/microsoft-xp-retarded-edition-to-be-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft XP Retarded Edition to be launched."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is launching a cut down version of Windows XP, as &quot;Starter Edition&quot;.&nbsp; This version will feature (or rather not feature) limited graphical capability and will only allow the user to run three programs at once.<\/p>\n<p>Full story at: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/3554084.stm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/3554084.stm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;&#8230; in an effort to halt the rise of low-cost Linux software&quot;<br \/>&quot;&#8230;&nbsp; it hoped the new software would also help deter consumers from buying pirated versions of its XP system&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t see a XP Retarded Edition helping in either of these battles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is launching a cut down version of Windows XP, as &quot;Starter Edition&quot;.&nbsp; This version will feature (or rather not feature) limited graphical capability and will only allow the user to run three programs at once. Full story at: http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/3554084.stm &quot;&#8230; in an effort to halt the rise of low-cost Linux software&quot;&quot;&#8230;&nbsp; it hoped the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/microsoft-xp-retarded-edition-to-be-launched\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft XP Retarded Edition to be launched.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbQOUu-h","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}