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Starting in October 2004, Windows XP Starter Edition will ship on new, low-cost desktop PCs available through PC original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and Microsoft OEM distributors in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. Language versions will be available in Thai, Malay and Indonesian.
Windows XP Starter Edition will be the most affordable Windows operating system offered to date. Specific pricing information will be made available to participating PC OEMs and Microsoft Authorized OEM Distributors in the coming weeks. The remaining two countries in the five-country pilot program will be announced later this year following final discussions with governments and partners.
Microsoft will continue to work closely with participating governments to ensure that the pilot program is a success. The company is establishing a 12-month pilot phase to study and evaluate the benefits created for first-time PC users, software and hardware industry partners, participating governments, and Microsoft. After the 12-month pilot phase, Microsoft may introduce a local version of Starter Edition in additional developing markets in collaboration with governments committed to improving access to technology for their citizens.
Windows XP Starter Edition offers a simple introduction to personal computing for consumers interested in buying an affordable first computer for their homes. The technology includes the following key features:
Localized and tailored support. Windows XP Starter Edition features a redesigned help system, called My Support, that includes a built-in, detailed Getting Started Guide. In addition, Windows XP Starter Edition includes a supplemental CD with local language instructional videos designed for first-time PC users.
Localized customization. With Windows XP Starter Edition, users can choose from country-specific wallpapers and screensavers with familiar landscapes, flags and geography-specific traditional designs.
Preconfigured settings. Windows XP Starter Edition will help reduce confusion regarding setup options for entry-level users by preconfiguring advanced settings and enabling the Windows Firewall by default.
Simplified task management. With Windows XP Starter Edition, first-time home PC users can have up to three programs and three windows per program running concurrently. Further simplification of the operating system includes the display resolution set to 800600 maximum and no support for PC-to-PC home networking, sharing printers across a network or more advanced features such as the ability to establish multiple user accounts on a single PC.
Windows XP Starter Edition includes basic Windows XP features that allow users to take advantage of computing experiences such as the following that are popular with most first-time desktop PC users:
Digital photography support with easy-to-use tools to help users store and share photos with family and friends, or make their own prints with one of the many printers supported by Windows XP
In addition to the social benefits of digital inclusion, Windows XP Starter Edition also creates economic opportunities for system builders and ISVs that are partnering with local governments to deliver a tailored and localized solution built on the Windows platform.
The SharePoint Starter Kit (starter kit) is a comprehensive solution designed for SharePoint Online and SharePoint 2019 which provides numerous SharePoint Framework (SPFx) web parts, extensions, and other components, as well as PnP PowerShell driven provisioning which you can use as an example and inspiration for your own customizations.
We initially announced the original SharePoint Starter Kit back in SharePoint Conference 2018 and are happy to announce an updated version of this starter package for providing you guidance and examples on building modern portals with modern SharePoint experiences and to surface SharePoint Framework solutions in Microsoft Teams.
Special thanks for Eric Overfied for working as the primary coordinator for getting the v2 release out. He will continue coordinating the future work here together with Beau Cameron. Want to get more closely involved? Reach out to them!
If you had asked me about Quake a few years ago, I would've made a weird farting sound with my mouth. But that was before I realized how messed up it was and how good the mods are. Today I'm here to offer you a way inside. Whether you're a lapsed Quake fan from 1996 or a skeptical newbie from 2021, it's never been a better time to start playing Quake.
I should note, this was written before Quake's new expansion and shiny new graphics updates were announced, but most of it still applies today - especially if you want to get involved in the mod side of things. One thing to keep in mind is that Quake's tech is still from 1996, so setup is not instantaneous. But trust me, it's worth it. If you get lost, this whole process is also covered in this handy video tutorial.
On Windows? Get Quake Starter, a free open-source Quake tool bundle. Download it and unzip it somewhere convenient, then double-click "quakestarter.cmd" and follow the prompts. While the new enhanced Quake re-release has an official updated engine, modern Quake mods might crash or run poorly on it. For maximum compatibility, use a community engine like Quakespasm.
Get free open source tool Quake Injector to browse, download, install, and launch custom Quake maps easily. On Windows, get the standalone "gradle" EXE version which no longer requires you to install Java. On Mac or Linux, get OpenJDK 16 (Java without Oracle's bloatware) and then run the regular ZIP version.
Ration ammo a little. Sometimes Quake is spray and pray, other times it's survival horror. Don't waste shotgun shells / nails on Zombies, they revive unless gibbed with explosives or quad damage. And don't waste grenades / rockets on Shamblers, the big pale tanky lightning monsters secretly have 50% resistance against explosives. Instead, try the "shambler dance" - dodge in-and-out of close range to bait it into a melee attack.
Lastly, it's OK to use cheats or to play on Easy mode, there's no shame in a "give s 20" to top up your shotgun, or a brief "god" mode to survive an impossible fight, or a little "noclip" to bypass a platforming section. Some community maps' Easy modes feel more like Normal.
Episode 1 begins with Romero's elegant tutorial e1m1 "Slipgate Complex" which modders have remade countless times. Willits' e1m2 "Castle of the Damned" became a popular multiplayer map, while e1m3 "The Necropolis" and e1m5 "Gloom Keep" are common riffs among mappers. Make sure you explore e1m4 "Grisly Grotto" thoroughly to find McGee's secret level e1m8 "Ziggurat Vertigo", a low gravity grenade ballet and fan favorite.
Episode 2 is mostly Romero's dark medieval ("wizard") levels, solid consistent work that plays with platforms over water. e2m1 "The Installation" is the standard sci-fi base map, e2m2 "Ogre Citadel" is a mapper's delight, and Romero's personal favorite e2m5 "Wizard's Manse" has a memorable entry gate and water trap. Also, don't miss e2m6 "Dismal Oubliette" with its great clockwork hub and haunted elevator ending.
Episode 3 is defined by McGee's work, metal "runic" tombs littered with lava traps and a sense of humor. e3m2 "Vaults of Zin" mischievously dangles a key in front of you, while secret level e3m7 "Haunted Halls" stages a tiny castle siege and odd cage encounter. And Willits' guest level e3m5 "Wind Tunnels" funnels the player through air pipes, which always feels a bit silly.
Then there's the polarizing Episode 4. You either love or hate Sandy Petersen's upside-down maze dungeons, full of relentless liminal hostility where every hallway feels too empty and too long. Petersen's e4m2 "Tower of Despair" memorably fools the player into jumping down through a false pool to a room below. e4m3 "Elder God Shrine" debuts the most-hated monster in Quake, a fast-leaping blue bomb blob called a Spawn; true to its name, e4m7 "Azure Agony" contains a dozen Spawns. It's OK to rage quit.
The popular "refinement mod" Copper has a flagship episode Underdark Overbright ("UDOB"), a partial re-imagining of Quake with clever callbacks and possibly the best boss remakes in recent memory. Years later, The Punishment Due evokes and builds upon UDOB with its own callbacks. Then the impressive episodic mod Dwell alloys an Egyptian theme onto Copper and polishes it to a sheen. Lastly, the Realm of the Lost starts with intense puzzles and platforming, and ends with extreme slaughter map combat... those Finnish mappers don't mess around.
Each of Arcane Dimensions' levels easily demands an hour or more. Play them all. But in particular, Bal and Sock are "elders" who returned to Quake in the 2010s to craft these jewels of the renaissance. Tears of the False God's milky arches flow effortlessly. Copper creator Lunaran says medieval city map Horde of Zendar is "the biggest, complete-est, flawless-est map I'd ever played, until Sock made even bigger ones." Bigger ones like the Forgotten Sepulcher, a massive poisoned temple that hides secrets within secrets.
czg's brilliant short episode Honey is a frequently recommended classic of the early Quake Renaissance. "Nobody really used fog much until czg made it an outright character in the game," says Lunaran. "He used it deftly for atmosphere, basically inventing 'silhouette as environment art' within Quake mapping [and] now nobody forgets to consider atmospherics in their levels." After you play the original, try out subsequent community riffs / fan distillations, with varying amounts of fog... Just don't call it a sewer level, it's a "cistern"!
Many look down on the "base" sci-fi theme. Sci-fi was the problem with Quake 2 and Quake 4, they remind us, and it pressures mappers to use the (boring) sci-fi monsters and textures. But then the base themed Rubicon 2 changed the conversation, Rubicon Rumble Pack (RRP) expanded it, and now Alkaline re-imagines the idea of the Quake base entirely. After that you'll be ready 37th Relic Retrieval, a multi-hour "huge fuckoff base" with 37 secrets that rivals the Forgotten Sepulcher.
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