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Originally Posted by ptyork
Incidentally, the inability to change the background must have been put in place so that the PC manufacturers (or perhaps wireless carriers) could effectively obtain permanent advertising space in the background.
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That's a side-effect I think - the real reason is Microsoft wanting to make Starter edition as unattractive as possible to the OEMs so that the only place they'd use it would be in emerging markets, etc. It doesn't seem to have worked.
