Netbooks - low cost and less powerful laptop computers - will run better on Windows 7 than Windows Vista. WSJ says that Microsoft will release Windows 7 Starter edition for netbook that will be cheaper but will have certain limits:
1. You can only run three applications simultaneously on Windows 7. So if you have email, web browser and an anti-virus software running on the machine, you will to shut down either one of these in order to start another program like iTunes or Word 2010.
2. The UI interface of Windows 7 Starter version will not be as impressive as other versions of Windows 7 (maybe to reduce the memory requirements).
Windows 7 Starter may actually work because by 2010, a lot of applications will become web based you really need only one software at a time and that’s your web browser.
The other workaround for running multiple application on Windows 7 starter could be a virtualization software like VMWare or Microsoft Virtual PC.
Windows 7 may hit the retail shelves sometime in October this year.
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