blogs.zdnet.com - 1/23/2009
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Microsoft has put out feelers among the beta-testing community for individuals in a number of countries outside the U.S. who'd be interested in trying Windows 7 on lower-power PCs. It's not clear whether Microsoft's Windows team is interested in testing a new netbook-specific SKU of Windows 7 or ...
blogs.zdnet.com - 1/22/2009
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blogs.zdnet.com —
January 22nd, 2009 Where are the Microsoft cuts
falling? Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 8:49 am...
Categories: Windows client , Windows Live , Corporate strategy , Office , Zune , Xbox , Utility/cloud computing Tags: Steve Ballmer , Microsoft Corp. , Team ...
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jkontherun.com - 1/22/2009
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jkontherun.com —
We have been warning everyone for months that
the mass appeal of low-cost netbooks was going to...
hit the major players hard. You’ve probably heard today that Microsoft plans to lay off 5,000 employees over the next 18 months due to the hard ...
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Microsoft to reduce staff by 5,000 because of netbooks
theregister.co.uk - 1/22/2009
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theregister.co.uk —
Mark Shuttleworth is looking forward to a good,
clean netbook fight with Microsoft following the release of...
Windows 7. Speaking with The Reg , the founder of popular Linux distro Ubuntu and chief executive of Canonical called Windows 7 a great ...
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Ubuntu's Shuttleworth praises Windows 7, welcomes fight ...
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Microsoft seeking netbook users to test Windows 7?
Liliputing —
... ZDNet reports that Microsoft is sending emails to some testers asking if they’d be willing to try a version of Windows 7 on low power machines with 1GHz processors, 1GB of RAM, and 16GB of available disc space. Microsoft says testers need a DVD-RW drive, but I’m guessing that’s just for burning the installation image to disc and installing the OS, so a USB drive would do. ...
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... - New version coming soon, but will it have what it takes to compete with the iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and Pre? • Microsoft seeking Win 7 testers for netbooks? - In countries other than the U.S. Also ...
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