Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 9th Mar 2009 20:05 UTC
Will there be a specific windows 7 SKU tailor-made for netbooks, or not? Until recently, that seemed very likely, but as time went on, the answer to that question got muddy again. During the past few weeks, Microsoft has been very adamant to reiterate that all Windows 7 SKUs can run on netbooks, and that it will enable customers to upgrade to higher SKUs easily. Recent comment by Steve Ballmer, however, indicate that Microsoft is still thinking about a specific netbook edition.
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Windows 7 isn't that resource intensive to begin with. I've ran the beta on a single core pentium 4 with 768mb of ram with no problems. So if Windows 7 can perform acceptably on that machine then there is no reason to have a specific netbook edition. Netbooks are only going to get faster as technology gets better. The next round of netbooks with dual core atom processors and 2 gigs of memory should have no problem running a full version of windows 7. The only thing Microsoft could add would be netbook specific optimizations and gui tweaks to compensate for the small screen size.
What price? If there is only one version of Windows 7, presumably (to be legal) it would be the same price everywhere. Otherwise we are looking at a case of dumping the product on one market in order to kill competition, aren't we?
So would it be a netbook-compatible price (about $5 to OEMs), or instead would it be a "MS can make a profit" price?
Edited 2009-03-10 04:50 UTC
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2008-06-29
Windows 7 isn't that resource intensive to begin with. I've ran the beta on a single core pentium 4 with 768mb of ram with no problems. So if Windows 7 can perform acceptably on that machine then there is no reason to have a specific netbook edition. Netbooks are only going to get faster as technology gets better. The next round of netbooks with dual core atom processors and 2 gigs of memory should have no problem running a full version of windows 7. The only thing Microsoft could add would be netbook specific optimizations and gui tweaks to compensate for the small screen size.