According to Microsoft, Windows 7 will run comfortably on a netbook. No surprise there. The company’s been saying this for a while now, and we’ve seen a number of early adopters load up a pre-release copy of the operating system on existing netbooks. In fact even Windows Vista runs better than many people would have […]
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Are netbooks a threat to Microsoft?
Netbooks running Linux may be returned more often than computers running Windows XP. But netbooks are the first class of consumer oriented computers where computer makers and retailers are regularly offering Linux as an alternative to Windows. It’s cheaper (as in, typically free), which helps keeps costs down. And it’s incredibly customizable, allowing companies like […]
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Sure Windows 7 will run on netbooks, but how well?
Microsoft is making a point of showing that Windows 7, the successor to Windows Vista will be light weight enough to run on older, slower, and less powerful machines than Vista. In other words, netbooks. While introducing Windows 7 at the Professional Developers Conference today, Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky held up a netbook (he didnt’ say […]
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Microsoft offers cheap software for cheap Portuguese netbooks
As I’ve previously mentioned, Portugal is getting into netbooks big time. The country’s government is subsidizing the cost of about half a million computers based on the Intel Classmate PC design and making them available to students for just about 50 Euros or $70. It costs about 285 Euroes of nearly $400 to pick up […]
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Microsoft starts to offer Windows XP ULPC licenses
A few months ago Microsoft announced it would allow makers of ultra low cost PCs or ULPCs to continue offering Windows XP even though the company is trying to retire the operating system. In order to qualify, a computer needs to meet pretty strict requirements. It needs to have a slow processor, relatively small hard […]
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Microsoft extends cheap XP offer to low cost desktops
Last month Microsoft announced plans to offer PC makers deep discounts on Windows XP for “ultra low cost PCs.” Microsoft defines ULPCs as computers with 10.2 inch or smaller screens, 1GB of RAM or less, 80GB or smaller hard drives, and 1GHz or slower processors (with exceptions for devices with an Intel Atom or VIA […]
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Windows XP on the XO Laptop: VIDEO
Want to know how Windows XP runs on the XO Laptop? Just check out the video from the team that’s been working on bringing Windows to the XO. While you’d think that Windows would have issues with the slow processor or the tiny amount of storage, the bigger challenges were apparently had to do with […]
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It’s official: OLPC XO Laptop to run Windows
Over the past few months we’ve heard inklings that Microsoft was in talks with the OLPC project to test Windows XP on the low-cost XO laptop. Now the New York Times is reporting that the OLPC organization will rollout a limited trial of Windows XP in four or five countries next month. If things go […]
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Low-cost PCs are new battlefield in Microsoft’s war on Linux
There are three things that separate low cost ultraportables like the Eee PC from higher end laptop computers. They’re small, lightweight, and cheap. In order to keep cheap in that equation, computers makers like Asus are turning to Linux, the open source operating system that you can install and run on most computers without paying […]