Netbooks, low-cost laptops originally designed for sale in countries with emerging economies, are becoming more popular in developed economies with consumers and business users who tend to use their ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a recent post to the Windows Blog, Brandon LeBlanc, a communications manager on the Windows Client Communications Team, said sales of Windows netbooks have gone from less than 10 percent of unit ...

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Canonical, the company that sponsors the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has attacked a Microsoft blogger's claims about why Windows netbooks outsell their Linux counterparts. On 3 April, Brandon LeBlanc ...

Windows’ dominance extends to 96% of netbooks sold in the U.S. in February. Worldwide, three-quarters of the 15 million netbooks sold in 2008 came with Windows. But Linux, which now accounts for the ...

Apparently, Microsoft is considering charging netbook makers way more for Windows 7 than it charges now for XP, which could eat into netbook manufacturers' profit margins. After all, as the linked ...

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 ...