While industry watchers are busy trying to figure out whether netbook makers are going to install Windows 7 Starter Edition, Windows 7 Home Premium or something else on the netbooks of tomorrow, one ...

Microsoft will continue to offer Windows XP for netbooks even after it starts selling Windows 7, a company executive has confirmed, saying it will take customer preference into account in its netbook ...

Update: Before you try all of this, you may want to try using WinToFlash, a utility designed to create a bootable Windows flash drive for Windows XP/Vista/7/Server. If this works for you, you can skip ...

Netbooks, the small, cheap laptops that are gaining popularity, hurt Microsoft Corp.’s Windows revenues for the second quarter in a row, company executives said Thursday. Revenues for the Windows ...

Just bought my first netbook, a Samsung NC10, and considering replacing XP with Windows 7. But since it'll be a hassle to re-install XP if I don't like 7, a couple questions for people already running ...

Windows XP goes out of support in April, so I'm looking for guidance on how best to go about replacing it with Windows 7. The Microsoft site has a tutorial, but is still somewhat baffling, and it ...

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 ...

Most netbooks available as of this writing ship with Windows XP. The few models that offer Windows Vista have performed sluggishly in our tests. Microsoft, however, stresses that Windows 7 will run ...

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 ...

Microsoft plans to offer a netbook-friendly version of Windows 7 that can only run three programs at a time and has a less robust graphical interface than the complete version of Windows 7. Called ...

Written by Tom Espiner and David Mey ZDNet.co.uk, Contributor March 5, 2009 at 8:36 p.m. PT Microsoft will continue to offer Windows XP for netbooks even after it starts selling Windows 7 for the ...