Microsoft will continue to offer Windows XP for netbooks even after it starts selling Windows 7, a company executive has confirmed, saying it will take customer preference into account in its netbook ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Windows XP goes out of support in April, so I’m looking for guidance on how best to go about replacing it with Windows 7. The Microsoft site has a tutorial, ...

Windows 7, Microsoft's newest operating system, has received positive reviews; Windows 7 Starter, the version for netbooks, not so much. Some critics think Microsoft's previous operating system, ...

While industry watchers are busy trying to figure out whether netbook makers are going to install Windows 7 Starter Edition, Windows 7 Home Premium or something else on the netbooks of tomorrow, one ...

Somebody should tell Doug “netbook” Aamoth that Windows 7 seems to be a battery hog. The fine folks at Laptop magazine have put three different netbooks to the test, determining their respective ...

We’ve known for a while that Microsoft was offering Windows XP to netbook makers at a deep discount. Now we know roughly how deep that discount is. The Wall Street Journal says Microsoft is getting ...

As someone who has been running Windows XP as a primary operating system for the past eight years and has seen more netbooks with the dated OS in the last year or so, I was probably more excited about ...

Complaints roll in about Windows 7, which some reviews say cuts almost a third off the battery life of netbooks shipping today, but one analyst says it's too early to condemn new OS Windows 7 cuts ...

Written by Tom Espiner and David Mey ZDNet.co.uk, Contributor March 5, 2009 at 8:36 p.m. PT Microsoft will continue to offer Windows XP for netbooks even after it starts selling Windows 7 for the ...

Windows XP goes out of support in April, so I m looking for guidance on how best to go about replacing it with Windows 7. The Microsoft site has a tutorial, but is still somewhat baffling, and it ...

Microsoft will soon stop releasing security patches for Windows XP, though it will continue to provide updates for its anti-virus program, Microsoft Security Essentials. XP will keep on working, but ...