ballmer thumb Windows 7 Starter is more about Google than Microsoft

Now why would Microsoft want to make Windows 7 appear worthless with limitations to run fewer apps at a time? I think it’s a pretty poor move, a windows based machine that won’t run too many of it’s own apps, why? The only point is to make it cheaper, sounds like making an iPhone copy that dos nothing but make phone calls. Perhaps the idea behind is that Microsoft wants the next generation of machines to be based on the cloud, yes the browser becomes your OS. But wait, isn’t Microsoft playing a second fiddle in that market, where Google is by far the best provider of browser based applications?