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- Windows 7 Starter Edition on netbooks: Is it bait and switch?
- Steve Ballmer has all but admitted that Windows 7 Starter Edition, to be sold on netbooks, is little more than a way to get people to upgrade to higher-priced versions of Windows 7. Is this the latest version of the time-honored strategy of bait and switch? Computerworld's Gregg Keizer reports...
- News items 2009-08-10
- Netbook buyers beware: Windows 7 Starter is missing features
- Microsoft may have ditched the three application limit on the Windows 7 Starter Edition, but other restrictions on the netbook-only version of the operating system will be an unwelcome surprise for many netbook buyers, according to a survey published Monday.
- News items 2009-11-10
- In Depth: Windows 7 upgrade: your options explained
- On 22 October, you'll be able to buy a copy of Windows 7.And while this time last month, Microsoft was still saying UK buyers would get Windows 7 E - a version of Windows 7 without a browser to avoid censure by the European Commission.But Microsoft has now changed its...
- News items 2009-08-18
- Microsoft Yanks Windows 7 For Netbooks Tool From Online Store
- Microsoft decided to pull its Windows 7 for Netbooks downloading tool from its online store. While Microsoft declined to officially comment, the takedown is likely in response to allegations that code for the tool was lifted from a CodePlex-hosted open-source project. The original program, the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool...
- News items 2009-11-10
- Netbooks, Office likely to keep hurting Microsoft sales, analyst says
- Computerworld - Strong sales of netbook computers, combined with plummeting sales of Microsoft Office to consumers, hurt Microsoft Corp.'s otherwise-strong first-quarter 2010 results reported today. At least one analyst expects the trend to continue, even with the release of a netbook-friendly Windows 7 and a free Web version of Office...
- News items 2009-10-23
- Microsoft deal discounts Windows 7 upgrades by 58%
- Computerworld - Microsoft today launched a promotion that discounts Windows 7 upgrades as much as 58% when customers also buy a new Windows 7 PC. The deal, which was available Thursday from the likes of Amazon.com and Staples, applies when consumers purchase a new computer equipped with Windows 7 Home...
- News items 2009-10-22
- Windows 7 Week: How to get your PC ready for Windows 7
- The process of installing a new operating system has become almost a ritual. Do you worship at the throne of backing everything up on a library of neatly labelled CDs, run the upgrade procedure and then gently reinstate your content? Or do you go hell-for-leather,...
- News items 2009-10-16
- ASUS' Future Netbooks (Including Nvidia Ion and Multitouch Models) Forget XP, Run Windows 7 [NetBooks]
- Copy this whole post to another site Arrivederci Windows XP on netbooks? If you believe leaked road maps, ASUS will release a handful of new netbooks in the U.S. running Windows 7 Starter and Home Premium editions and a 12-inch Eee PC with Nvidia's Ion. There was speculation that many...
- News items 2009-08-31
- Microsoft Using Family Guy for Windows 7 Campaign
- Microsoft hopes that "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane will do what Jerry Seinfeld couldn't: sell an operating system. As part of the gargantuan rollout for Windows 7, Microsoft enlisted MacFarlane--who also created "American Dad" and "The Cleveland Show"--and Fox to create a commercial-free show, "Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's...
- News items 2009-10-14
- Seven reasons to skip upgrading to Windows 7
- My colleague Preston Gralla came up with seven reasons to move to Windows 7. And, they are pretty good, but good enough to switch away from XP, or to skip Mac OS X Snow Leopard or desktop Linux? I don't think so. Let me open up by saying though that...
- News items 2009-08-13
- Ubuntu 9.10 Linux creator calls Windows 7 'excellent release'
- Computerworld - Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical Ltd., the maker of the most popular desktop Linux alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows, not only claims to be "delighted" that Windows 7 is out, but calls the new operating system an "excellent release." "It's a substantial improvement on the past....
- News items 2009-10-26
- Ubuntu 9.10 Linux creator calls Windows 7 'excellent release'
- Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical Ltd., the maker of the most popular desktop Linux alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows, not only claims to be "delighted" that Windows 7 is out, but calls the new operating system an "excellent release." "It's a substantial improvement on the past. Even on...
- News items 2009-10-28
- Apple must upgrade Boot Camp to support Windows 7
- Computerworld - Apple today announced that it will update its Boot Camp utility before the end of the year to support Microsoft's just-launched Windows 7. In a short support document posted to the Apple site, the company said it would soon revise Boot Camp, a utility that lets users run...
- News items 2009-10-22
- Microsoft Q1 2010 by the numbers: Windows license sales at record levels
- By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Microsoft may have quite a headache, but the economy finally isn't whacking the company as hard. This morning, Microsoft announced fiscal 2010 first quarter results before Wall Street's opening bell, beating analyst consensus expectations. Mixing metaphors, Microsoft's results don't...
- News items 2009-10-23
- Chrome's mission: Making Windows obsolete
- Some people are already convinced that Google will fail with its Chrome operating system. Others think that Chrome can't possibly be a threat to Windows. Both groups are so, so wrong. First, for those who think that Chrome is simply a failure from the word go, their reasoning is pathetically...
- News items 2009-11-22
- A Windows to Help You Forget [Personal Technology]
- In just two weeks, on Oct. 22, Microsoft's long operating-system nightmare will be over. The company will release Windows 7, a faster and much better operating system than the little-loved Windows Vista, which did a lot to harm both the company's reputation, and the productivity and blood pressure of its...
- News items 2009-10-07
- Microsoft's Week: Azure and Office 2010 Show the Cloud Will Dominate
- Microsoft rolled out the beta of Office 2010 and other productivity software, and made some key announcements about its Windows Azure cloud platform, during the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this week. Even as Microsoft moves to embrace the cloud, the release of Google Chrome OS to open source...
- News items 2009-11-22
- Microsoft launches beta tests of free Office 2010, 'streaming' delivery
- Microsoft has launched new betas for its free Office suite and for the "streaming" technology it will use to deliver some paid versions of Office 2010 next year. As first reported by ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft has kicked off a private beta of Office Starter 2010, the ad-supported...
- News items 2009-11-22
- Microsoft to replace Works with ad-supported 'Office Starter 2010'
- By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews In a bold new experiment for distributing Office that, quite surprisingly, does not involve Office Web Apps, Microsoft announced this afternoon its plans to let OEMs pre-install the full Office 2010 on new...
- News items 2009-10-08
- Netbooks, smartbooks, smartphones – can't we all just get along? | Jack Schofield
- People should just buy whichever device suits their needs, and respect other people's freedom to do the same Christmas is coming and PC vendors are not getting fat. However, things are not as bad as expected. The latest prediction from the analysts at Gartner is that...
- News items 2009-11-25
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