Microsoft: No Windows 7 restrictions for netbooks

Posted on Monday, September 28 2009 @ 19:29 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
TG Daily heard from Microsoft that netbook makers are free to install whatever version of Windows 7 they want on netbooks, they aren't restricted to using the Windows 7 Starter edition.
The software giant also confirmed that the daft three application limit originally planned for Windows 7 Starter has been removed.

"OEMs and ODMs have the choice to install any version of Windows on a netbook," said a Microsoft UK spokesperson. "[But] Starter is an entry version and doesn’t have many of the consumer or business features. The three application limit isn’t there anymore."


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