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 ...

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 ...

Most modern desktops and laptops have power to spare, but netbooks are notoriously pokey. Consequently, you should turn off any operating-system features that can make your Lilliputian PC even slower.

Today may be Windows 7 launch day, but you know what? Not everybody wants Windows 7. Sure, the OS is streamlined to run significantly better on netbooks than Windows Vista. And it has a number of ...

Windows 7 cuts almost a third off the battery life of some netbooks shipping today with Windows XP, several recent reviews and user reports say. Laptop magazine reported in its blog on Monday that ...

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 ...

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 made headlines recently when The Wall Street Journal reported that the company planned to equip netbooks with the Starter edition of Windows 7, a semi-crippled version that only lets users ...

So there’s this tiny unpatched bug in VBScript that lets sneaky websites run malicious code on machines running Internet Explorer on Windows XP. It’s triggered when you try to access the help menu by ...

In an effort to counter the growing dominance of Microsoft’s Windows OS in netbooks, Intel on Tuesday announced a beta version of a Linux OS it has developed for low-cost laptops and mobile devices.

Complaints roll in about Windows 7, which some reviews say cuts almost a third off the battery life of netbooks shipping today, but one analyst says it's too early to condemn new OS Windows 7 cuts ...