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December 7th, 2009, 10:20
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Ah, the blessings of market fragmentation. If you thought that, in its efforts to differentiate (http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/windows-7-skus-announced-yes-your-worst-nightmare-has-come-to/) the Starter Edition from its beefier Windows 7 offerings, Microsoft chopped off the ability to share wireless connections between compatible devices, we've got good news: it didn't. Turns out that ad-hoc networking is very much a part of Windows 7 Cheap Edition, and the only thing missing from it is the dialog you see above. Thrifty Edition owners will have to find the application themselves -- through the shockingly difficult process of a Start Menu search -- but once they do it'll behave exactly as if they'd bought the Extra Awesome variety. Great job, Microsoft -- you keep hiding features and we'll keep installing Chrome OS on our netbooks (http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/chrome-os-like-lightning-from-a-usb-key-we-could-get-used-to-th/), deal?Windows 7 Starter comes with hidden wireless connection sharing (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/windows-7-starter-comes-with-hidden-wireless-connection-sharing/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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Ah, the blessings of market fragmentation. If you thought that, in its efforts to differentiate (http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/03/windows-7-skus-announced-yes-your-worst-nightmare-has-come-to/) the Starter Edition from its beefier Windows 7 offerings, Microsoft chopped off the ability to share wireless connections between compatible devices, we've got good news: it didn't. Turns out that ad-hoc networking is very much a part of Windows 7 Cheap Edition, and the only thing missing from it is the dialog you see above. Thrifty Edition owners will have to find the application themselves -- through the shockingly difficult process of a Start Menu search -- but once they do it'll behave exactly as if they'd bought the Extra Awesome variety. Great job, Microsoft -- you keep hiding features and we'll keep installing Chrome OS on our netbooks (http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/24/chrome-os-like-lightning-from-a-usb-key-we-could-get-used-to-th/), deal?Windows 7 Starter comes with hidden wireless connection sharing (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/windows-7-starter-comes-with-hidden-wireless-connection-sharing/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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