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Netbooks could be Microsoft revenue hope for Windows 7
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
If you buy a netbook your choices are really Linux or Windows XP. By the end of the year, Windows 7 will be a further option. However, what you’ll find is a cut down Starter version of the OS installed, with the full edition tucked away waiting to be activated at the touch of a credit card.
To encourage this upgrade, users will only be able to run three applications at a time with the netbook version. In theory this isn’t too bad, that could be a web browser with your web mail in one tab and your favourite sites on others, a game of online poker in one and the word processor that you should be working on as the third application. However, look at your desktop now — it’s likely you’ve got a couple of other things running too. Netbooks could be Microsoft’s revenue hope for Windows 7
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