Yeap, Microsoft is gonna sell the half-priced, half-featured, but-not-half-as-buggy-and-vulnerable Microsoft Windows XP Starter Edition here in Malaysia next month (according to The Register).

How many of you would buy it, install it, and be compliant to the software licensing requirements? Or would you still embrace the RM 5 el-cheapo Full Professional (with extras!) version you got from *insert your favourite games/software/VCD/DVD/pr0n supplier here*?

According to The Register as well (in another story):
“Users can have up to three programs and three windows per program running concurrently. Further simplification of the operating system includes the display resolution set to 800×600 maximum 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.”