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.

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 ...

Let's set the mood for this one with a Pink Floyd tune we hadn't heard in years until it broke the normally crushing banality of classic-rock radio on the commute home the other day. It's "Free Four" ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently confirmed that the company will limit Windows 7 Starter, the edition expected to end up on netbooks, to systems that sport small screens and low-powered processors ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...