There’s been a lot of talk over the last few days about Windows 7 on netbooks. As we’ve known for months, the Windows 7 beta that’s currently available runs fantastically on netbooks. Performance is ...

Windows 7 Starter Edition comes on a lot of netbooks, which is too bad -- it might sound "lighter" than Home Premium, but there's not a shred of performance difference between the two. If you have a ...

Windows 7's 'netbook edition' -- Windows 7 Starter -- will only let you run three applications at once, Microsoft has revealed. There has been some confusion over what this means, and how it's handled ...

Jinadasa Katulanda has a netbook computer running Windows 7 Starter. He asked about upgrading it to the Home Premium edition. The Windows 7 Starter edition is the cheapest, least-powerful version of ...

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, ...

Blogger Paul Thurrott was right. Microsoft is eliminating one of the biggest sticking points for Windows 7 Starter Edition -- the three-application-concurrency limitation. Microsoft officials ...

Microsoft plans to offer a netbook-friendly version of Windows 7 that can only run three programs at a time and has a less robust graphical interface than the complete version of Windows 7. Called ...

Update: Since I prepared this post, Microsoft has reversed course and announced that it will not impose the three-app limit in Windows 7 Starter. Note: See an important update at the end of this post.