Verily I say unto thee, that Peter KÃhlmann spake thusly:
> Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:28:07 -0700, Tim Smith wrote:
>>> In article <ahc3g4-iat.ln1@xxxxxxxxxx>, "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> This is getting ridiculous. First no networking or access to backups for
>>>> Home Basic, now no recovery discs. Put aside my obvious biases,
>>> Even more ridiculous is your FUD. Home Basic has networking.
Oh excuse me, I meant "Starter Edition". All those different versions
make it a tad confusing, which was probably the intention.
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=587581&SiteID=17
>> It also has backups.
> Only the manual one. All other backup options of the other versions are
> *not* accessible
>
>> What it doesn't have is access to file versioning.
>
> It does not have a great many things. In short: It has absolutely nothing
> which would warrant getting that POS
Yes, and Starter Edition amounts to little more than a visual demo, but
it does have the benefit of enabling Microsoft to claim that Vista is
not really expensive at all, "honest", whilst showing how "benevolent"
they are towards starving children in Africa.
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K.
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