Update: Oops. I misread the article, and I'm not the only one. Thanks to Ed Bott for setting us straight. Ignore the below - IE is counted as one of the three. But still, run Linux, and no-one will ever try and stop you running as many apps as you want ;-)
Is it anticompetitive to exempt IE from the 3-app limit on Windows 7 Starter Edition, but not other browsers?
So if you use IE as your browser on Windows 7 SE, you can have three other apps open, but if you use Firefox, you can only have two. Seems like a fairly big disincentive built into the OS to use alternative browsers, to me. That doesn't sit well with "EC Principle 2" - Windows Must Not Provide a Technical Advantage to IE.
Posted by gerv at April 23, 2009 3:09 PM | TrackBackRead the article again. http://twitter.com/edbott/status/1593891126
Posted by: Neil T. at April 23, 2009 4:18 PMgerv, I do not see where he says that IE is exempted - he is just saying that you can have multiple tabs and windows of IE open at the same time. At least that was my read.
Posted by: timfry at April 23, 2009 4:39 PM