News - Will Microsoft launch a Windows 7 Netbook Edition?

[lodore]

Im sure they would make a profit no matter what price they put it at.
I dont want to have to pay roughly double the cost for one feature from the business side of things.
its eiether business features,home features at a decent price or all features at an insane price.
I think the buy the features you want idea is the best. buy windows 7 get the base and then buy what your gonna use.

I dont know why business versions dont come with a dvd decoder.

[lodore]

If that were the "right" way to do it then why are Apple a minority share, and as far as business is concerned, hardly even a blip on the radar. It just doesn't make sense for the lower end market to "have" to buy the more expensive all encompassing OS when it has stuff they don't need. OSX is more expensive than the lower end editions of Vista for example. Only way it would work as far as customer needs and demands would be to make one OS but priced at the current lowest end, and that's not going to happen and probably wouldn't be profitable.

Hello,
that is such a simple question to answer. the reason apple have a small market share is becuse they only sell high end laptop and desktops. plus you have to buy everything from apple. if apple allowed OSX to be installed any any hardware that meets the minimum specs they would make more money and have a bigger market share.
btw vista home basic doesnt count its a complete joke.

[toml245]

Personally I'd like to see them to move to a different stratergy.

Firstly: Purchase Windows 7, this runs in either 32 or 64bit mode depending on how it's installed.

Next: Purchase Add-Ons, want Domain support, buy it, want to use media centre? sure and so on.

It'd be a *far* simpler way and, more importantly if the EU really gets a stick up it's arse this time, then MS can simply open up the add on functionality to let people sell similiar packages.

I've seen software with a similar approach and if it's done right it could really make things a damned site easier

I really doubt they would do that because oem would probably just buy the base and put on free software, which would lose money for ms.