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Microsoft: Windows 7 Starter Edition could run on $200 netbooks

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 generation operating system for home computers including laptops and netbooks, Microsoft will make Windows 7 Starter Edition available in developed nations like the US. […]

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Verizon to offer subsidized HP Mini 1000 netbooks

Verizon has already confirmed its plans to sell netbooks in its retail stores. The company hasn’t yet declared which mini-laptops it will make available, or at what price, but it’s looking pretty likely that the HP Mini 1000 will be one of the first. Hot on the heels of a rumor that Verizon and HP […]