>  The sad thing is that people are just content with these braindead greedy
> limitations MS puts in their OS.
>  Basically what they do is: Disable support for multiple processors and
> sell it at the regular price. Sell the version without the disabled 
> features
> at a higher price.

It's not just MS that use this strategy, a lot of other companies do even 
outside of computing.  It helps keep costs down rather than having to 
develop 2 or more totally separate products (think NT and Win9x).  If you 
buy a BMW 316, 318 or 320 they will all have the same physical engine, just 
different software to generate a different amount of power.  Graphics cards 
do the same, the cheaper variant just have a few of the pipelines disabled.

>  Of course this is marketing. However, it's sad that people are just 
> content
> with this.

It's not really just marketing, it makes total financial sense if you need 
to sell to a wide range of customers.  No doubt all companies do a careful 
calculation to work out the best way to price their products and what 
features to include at what level.  They're not stupid.

And what, you'd prefer that everyone had to pay a kind of mid-range-price 
for the top version, when 90% of home users won't care about all the 
features in the top version?  Or that MS develop 2 or 3 totally separate 
product lines, probably making all prices higher due to far more development 
required?

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