Microsoft has withdrawn its limited access of Windows 7 Starter Edition for three applications at a time. This is said by the observer and author Paul Thurrott. Despite it doesn’t appear to include allow to change wallpapers, the limit will be removed from the edition.
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The main reason for changing the three app limit is to open the door for stronger competition from Android and other Linux-Based operating systems, which are running on netbooks as they come free of cost or at lower cost. In other side, mobile internet devices and iPod touch have enforced Microsoft to make the costs low.
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