Microsoft’s is offering a stripped-down version of its new Windows 7 OS–called Windows 7 Starter–that’s aimed especially at netbooks. The idea is to get netbook users off Windows XP–an OS Microsoft is ...

Windows 7 Starter Edition took some criticism with its three-application limit. Today, however, Microsoft announced on its WIndows Team Blog that it would be removing the three-application limit on ...

Ad hoc wireless networking thought to be unavailable in the netbook edition of Windows 7 is actually there, noted Windows blogger says Microsoft may have buried a wireless networking feature in ...

Most netbooks ship with Windows 7 Starter Edition, rather than the more expensive Windows 7 Home Premium. And while at the core, these two operating systems are very similar, Microsoft has disabled ...

Paul Thurrott’s reporting that Microsoft’s going to drop the three-app-at-a-time limitation from Windows 7 Starter—the cheaper Windows 7 geared toward netbooks. He doesn’t know if they’re going let ...

Nokia’s new Booklet 3G netbook looks impressive. With its sleek aluminum shell, 12-hour battery, Wi-Fi, 3G broadband, and GPS, it’s a slick package (on paper, anyway, since we haven’t tested it yet) ...

A Microsoft official is predicting the availability of $200 netbooks by the 2009 holiday season. Although the company is positioning Windows 7 Home Premium as the default version of its next ...