[clug] Google compared to latest Microsoft evilness

[Jason Stokes]

The standard edition of Windows Server 2008 is arbitrarily limited to 32 GB of memory.  If you need more, you have to upgrade to to the enterprise edition.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001283.html

Reminds me of the Windows XP firewall, which is arbitrarily limited to blocking incoming ports, not outgoing ones.  Not that blocking outgoing ports is all that useful, but simply blocking port 25 by unauthorized programs by default would have caused bot-spammers a serious headache.  Or the endless editions of Office, where if you want all the features, you have to pay an outrageous price.

Whatever you can say about Google, it's hard to imagine them selling a deliberately crippled product like this, if only because they are the up-and-coming competition and they couldn't get away with it.


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