There’s been a lot of talk over the last few days about Windows 7 on netbooks. As we’ve known for months, the Windows 7 beta that’s currently available runs fantastically on netbooks. Performance is ...

Microsoft may have buried a wireless networking feature in Windows 7 Starter, the edition installed on most netbooks, but it did not actually disable the ad hoc wireless feature, as the firm’s ...

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 ...

Windows 7 Starter edition introduces genuine "Microsoft tax" At its annual financial analyst day last month, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed that the Starter edition of Windows 7 would be ...

Several sites have been talking about Windows 7 Starter Edition, its limitations, and its possible applications. For the first time since Microsoft released Windows XP Starter Edition and Vista ...

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 ...

The stripped-down, reduced-cost Windows 7 Starter Edition has already done its part to squander the public’s recent good will for the new OS, but an ultra-low price could turn things around.

Microsoft (MSFT) thinks it's found a way to compete among the cheapest computers on the market: Sell PCs dirt cheap that are deliberately crippled, and then charge users to remove Microsoft-made ...

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 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 ...

Buying a netbook with Windows 7 Starter pre-installed? That's not a bad option, but here's something you might not realize: Starter Edition isn't really any "lighter" or faster than Home Premium. So ...

Microsoft said on Friday it would not limit the number of applications available at one time on the Starter edition of its upcoming Windows 7 operating system, reversing its earlier strategy of ...