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 ...

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 ...

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.

Netbooks, the small, cheap laptops that are gaining popularity, hurt Microsoft Corp.’s Windows revenues for the second quarter in a row, company executives said Thursday. Revenues for the Windows ...

Microsoft plans a tool that will allow users to download Windows 7 and create a bootable USB drive that can be used to upgrade machines that lack their own DVD drive. During her years at CNET News, ...

Just bought my first netbook, a Samsung NC10, and considering replacing XP with Windows 7. But since it'll be a hassle to re-install XP if I don't like 7, a couple questions for people already running ...

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 ...