Microsoft made headlines recently when The Wall Street Journal reported that the company planned to equip netbooks with the Starter edition of Windows 7, a semi-crippled version that only lets users ...

Those of you who keep an eye on this blog will have read my thoughts about Apricot's PicoBook Pro netbook - out of the current crop of low-cost subnotebooks, this has to be one of the lowest-specced.

As we get closer to the promised release date of Windows 7 (we’ll see if it really does appear in October), both hype and tempers rise. Add in the netbook question, which forced Microsoft to keep XP ...

The Windows 7/netbook connection depends on whether netbook users will be willing to pay more for the Windows 7 experience Microsoft must perform a tricky balancing act as it tries to keep Windows on ...

Intel is on the record with size limits for Netbooks, and Microsoft may tie this to Windows 7 pricing, according to reports. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, ...

I've spent some time googling, and have read about the pros and cons of Windows 7 Starter vs XP home.<BR><BR>Windows 7 starter has had a bunch of stuff stripped out, but its mostly stuff I don't care ...

Netbooks, low-cost laptops originally designed for sale in countries with emerging economies, are becoming more popular in developed economies with consumers and business users who tend to use their ...

As expected, Windows 7 seems to run fairly well on a netbook. Sure, we’ve already seen the boot screen on an MSI Wind. But Laptop Magazine’s Joanna Stern took a pre-beta build of the next generation ...

A few weeks ago Kevin Tofel from jkOnTheRun and I ran a few tests that seemed to show that netbooks running Windows XP get better battery life than those running Windows 7. Our test machines were the ...

Ultrathin, ultraportable, or Netbook? There are often big differences among these categories though you wouldn't always know it by looking at them. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems ...

Microsoft has said that any version of Windows 7 will run on a netbook. We try it with Windows 7 Ultimate. Microsoft made headlines recently when The Wall Street Journal reported that the company ...

Microsoft made headlines recently when The Wall Street Journal reported that the company planned to equip netbooks with the Starter edition of Windows 7, a semi-crippled version that only lets users ...