Netbooks, the small, cheap laptops that are gaining popularity, hurt Microsoft Corp.’s Windows revenues for the second quarter in a row, company executives said Thursday. Revenues for the Windows ...

In a recent post to the Windows Blog, Brandon LeBlanc, a communications manager on the Windows Client Communications Team, said sales of Windows netbooks have gone from less than 10 percent of unit ...

Windows’ dominance extends to 96% of netbooks sold in the U.S. in February. Worldwide, three-quarters of the 15 million netbooks sold in 2008 came with Windows. But Linux, which now accounts for the ...

The Windows 7/netbook connection depends on whether netbook users will be willing to pay more for the Windows 7 experience Microsoft must perform a tricky balancing act as it tries to keep Windows on ...

In Microsoft's fiscal second quarter ended Dec. 31, client revenue dropped 8 percent compared to the year-ago quarter, while OEM revenue fell 12 percent, or $465 million, and OEM license units fell ...

Microsoft has said that any version of Windows 7 will run on a netbook. We try it with Windows 7 Ultimate. Microsoft made headlines recently when The Wall Street Journal reported that the company ...

Is the writing on the wall for Linux netbooks? While most mini-laptops are capable of running a number of Linux distributions quite well, it looks like an increasing number of netbooks are shipping ...

The MacBook Neo is a fantastic value at $599, but how does it stack up against similarly priced Windows laptops? Here's what ...

Microsoft made headlines recently when The Wall Street Journal reported that the company planned to equip netbooks with the Starter edition of Windows 7, a semi-crippled version that only lets users ...