The stripped-down, reduced-cost Windows 7 Starter Edition has already done its part to squander the public’s recent good will for the new OS, but an ultra-low price could turn things around.

Microsoft may have buried a wireless networking feature in Windows 7 Starter, the edition installed on most netbooks, but it did not actually disable the ad hoc wireless feature, as the firm’s ...

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 ...

Survey finds most netbook users are unaware that Windows 7 Starter lacks some features that were standard in any version of Windows XP Microsoft may have ditched the three application limit on the ...

Paul Thurrott’s reporting that Microsoft’s going to drop the three-app-at-a-time limitation from Windows 7 Starter—the cheaper Windows 7 geared toward netbooks. He doesn’t know if they’re going let ...

Gigabyte has announced plans to launch Windows 7 versions of two of the company’s latest netbooks in Japan. The Gigabyte T1028X convertibel touchscreen netbook will be available with Windows 7 Starter ...

The Toshiba NB205 is one of the more popular netbooks launched in the second half of 2009 thanks to its large touchpad, roomy keyboard, and stellar battery life. Toshiba recently launched an updated ...

So I upgraded the hard drive in my netbook and then realised that it didn't come with a Windows 7 install media. So now I have a netbook and a Windows 7 Starter SNPC OA product key. I tried installing ...

Microsoft has said that any version of Windows 7 will run on a netbook. We try it with Windows 7 Ultimate. Microsoft made headlines recently when The Wall Street Journal reported that the company ...

Ad hoc wireless networking, which lets several Windows computers share a single connection, was one of several networking features Microsoft claims are not available in Windows 7 Starter. Those ...

Microsoft made headlines recently when The Wall Street Journal reported that the company planned to equip netbooks with the Starter edition of Windows 7, a semi-crippled version that only lets users ...