blogs.zdnet.com - 5/23/2009
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Microsoft is readying a set of maximum specs for Windows 7 netbooks --or, as Microsoft prefers to call them, "small notebooks" -- that will likely dictate which PCs will qualify for lower per-copy Windows 7 pricing.
windowsteamblog.com - 5/27/2009
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windowsteamblog.com —
At Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital
conference about a year ago today, Julie Larson-Green first
introduced Walt Mossberg to Windows 7 and its multi-touch capabilities, which we call Windows Touch . While we’ve been working on bringing ...
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Introducing the Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7
digitimes.com - 5/26/2009
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digitimes.com —
Microsoft and Intel have reached a consensus to
decrease the upper screen-size limit for netbook PCs equipped
with Windows 7 from 12.1 inches to 10.2 inches, according to sources at Taiwan-based ODM notebook makers, who added that this may have a ...
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Microsoft and Intel looking to limit netbook sizes to ...
pcworld.com - 5/21/2009
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pcworld.com —
Although Microsoft quietly delivered Windows Vista Service Pack
2 (SP2) to TechNet and MSDN subscribers last week,
the company has still has not made the upgrade available to other users. Three weeks ago, Microsoft announced it had wrapped up work on ...
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Microsoft: Still No Vista SP2 for You
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Microsoft publishes maximum Windows 7 netbooks specs
Engadget —
... Window 7 Starter machines will max out at 10.2-inch screens, 1GB of RAM, 250GB hard drives or 64GB SSDs, and single-core processors under 2GHz. Of course, Microsoft's told us all along that it thinks lots of OEMs will ignore the max specs and just ship Windows 7 Home Premium since it runs way better on netbooks than Vista, but we'll see how this plays out at Computex -- we're expecting a wave of 10.2-inch netbooks with 2GHz procs and 1GB of RAM in the near future. [Via ZDNet] Filed under: Laptops Microsoft publishes maximum Windows 7 netbooks ...
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Report: Windows 7 Netbook price tied to size
DriverHeaven.net —
... A recent ZDNet blog reported that the maximum allowable diagonal screen size for a Windows 7-based Netbook will be 10.2 inches. And on Tuesday, ...
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