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Frank Hayes has been taken for a ride by the marketeers at Microsoft. In a column discussing the new XP Lite (being offered in some overseas markets), he says this:
The upside is that Microsoft is now doing what was once unthinkable: trimming down a product to what users need. After two decades of bloating Windows and insisting that one size fits everyone, Microsoft is finally acknowledging that not all users require all that expensive complexity.
And that's cause for optimism, even if it's based on something that exists only on the other side of the globe. After all, if Microsoft debloated its software for them, why not for us?
De-bloated? They crippled it, they didn't lighten it. Limiting the number of open windows and disabling some networking options isn't de-bloating - heck, I bet most of the functionality is still there - it's just been routed around. Making a lighter product would take MS significant time, and this isn't it. But heck, they don't have to - they've got gullible analysts out there picking up their talking points for them...
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