Windows 7 System for Netbooks with Full Features
23rd September, 2009 by aura
Tags: Netbooks, Software, Windows 7
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The „low cost small notebook PCs”, the words used by Microsoft to designate a version of the upcoming Windows 7 operating system for netbooks, will not have a very limited feature-set as first thought. According to a Sunday TGDaily report, there will be a version of the netbook-oriented OS with most of the standard functions of the OS retained, though what these would be isn’t known.
This new rumored OS is likely to be based on Windows 7 Starter Edition which is already being restricted for use in low-cost netbooks, including dropping the Aero Glass interface and not allowing users to change the default wallpaper. However, the three application limit for the starter edition will also be removed.
It’s thought that Intel and netbook manufacturers were at least partially responsible for Microsoft’s decision to offer the new, unnamed operating system variant, which would allow netbooks to be more functional than with Starter Edition or other versions. One of the causes for this option might have been prompted by fears that netbook producers would choose Linux over the more expensive Windows versions.
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