Will We Really See Windows 7 on Netbooks?

From PC World: 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 version of the time-honored strategy of bait and switch?

Computerworld's Gregg Keizer reports that Ballmer recently finally confirmed that Windows 7 Starter Edition will be available only on the most underpowered of netbooks.

Keizer reports that at Microsoft's annual financial analyst day on July 30, he said:

"Our license tells you what a netbook is Our license says it's got to have a super-small screen, which means it probably has a super-small keyboard, and it has to have a certain processor and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah."

The "blah, blah, blah, blah, blah," aside, the site TechARP.com had previously reported that Windows 7 Starter Edition will only be allowed to be sold on netbooks with a screen of 10.2 inches or smaller, 1 GB or less of memory, a hard disk of only up to 250GB or a solid-state drive not larger than 64GB, and a single core processor running at a maximum of 2GHz.

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