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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...