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Microsoft rumored to offer Windows 7 on USB thumb drives
Microsoft is reportedly considering offering Windows 7 on USB thumb drives to allow netbook owners to upgrade their machines. Windows has, until now, only been distributed on DVDs or via download. This is great news for netbooks owners as netbooks don't have optical drives.
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. The Windows 7 ISO weighs in at 2.3GB, which would take several hours to download on an average broadband connection and potentially do serious damage to a customer's broadband data cap. Consequently, the company is exploring alternative means of distributing the OS, including USB flash drives, according to a report.
Posted by | Sat, Jun 27, 2009 - 03:25 PM
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