From: Mike N. 

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 22:47:16 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:

> This XP variant, Windows XP Starter Edition, strips
>out features such as multiple-user capability and home networking, and it
>only lets you run three programs at a time.

  The reason they removed home networking is that otherwise you'd have a
spiral of death - as spyware accumulates from the network, they count as
programs.   After there are 3 trojans / spyware running, you can't run
anything....

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