Windows 7 to be available on USB Drives?
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversMicrosoft is considering offering Windows 7 on a thumb drive to allow Netbook owners to more easily upgrade their machines, a source tells CNET News.
The move, which is still under consideration, is one of several things Microsoft has looked at to try to make it convenient to upgrade machines that don't come with a CD or DVD drives.
Microsoft executives have said that they recognize that upgrading Netbooks poses a challenge and are exploring ways that the company can make it easier. In an interview on Thursday, Senior Vice President Bill Veghte said that Microsoft had nothing to announce on that front.
The challenge of getting Windows 7 on to older Netbooks threatens to cast a shadow over the technical work Microsoft did to get Windows 7 running on Netbooks. Its predecessor, Windows Vista, proved ill-suited to Netbooks forcing Microsoft to continue selling Windows XP as its answer to the low-cost notebook phenomenon.
Although a USB flash drive could offer the simplest way to move a Netbook to Windows 7, there are other options. Buyers with an external drive could hook up that to their Netbook, while another option would be an upgrade through a service such as Best Buy's Geek Squad. Microsoft also sells a downloadable version of Windows today, so, in theory it could do the same with Windows 7, allowing buyers to put the OS on their own thumb drive.
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Comments(3)
they wont release it on uzb course people can copy it over and stuff but maybe if they
only release that crappy netbook os nobody will bother.
might be a good idea,faster install maybe.
yes people can copy over and over
but the same goes for dvd's as well
i'm sure ms will beef up there
anti-piracy/activation systems --- just as sure that there will be activation cracks out
within days of it hitting the shelfs,
i have installed with usb boot driver and copy of whole extracted w7 software with util
folder for utility software, i have installed to dell inspiron 2100 netbook. works very
well and fast with all other software.
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