Microsoft simplifies inane packaging for Windows 7

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited June 2009 in Science & Tech
Microsoft simplifies inane packaging for Windows 7

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  • chrisWhitechrisWhite Littleton, CO
    edited June 2009
    Awesome! Microsoft, thanks for listening and improving this! I still think one or two editions would be better but this breakdown makes a lot of sense to me.

    So which one will be used on most of the Win 7 gen netbooks?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    It is up to the OEM's discretion as to which edition will come pre-installed.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    (Almost certainly Home Premium.)
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    Snark, I hear there's a limit of 100 desktop icons in Win7. Better prepare now.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    Lucky for me, my home computers are never so cluttered.
  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    Hey, I have a better idea! Digital distribution, all the cool kids are doing it! And for the retail copies you do sell, put that bugger on a USB key, they are dirt cheap now, no reason to trod along in the stone ages. Loading an OS via optical media is so 1998.
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    The problem with putting it on a USB key:

    1) Users accidentally wiping their Windows install media then not being savvy enough to download a new copy.
    2) Boot from USB is still a relatively new thing and is buggy on some motherboards. My last computer wouldn't boot from USB reliably and it was technically new enough to run Windows 7.

    Otherwise I agree with you Cliff.
  • MiracleManSMiracleManS Chambersburg, PA Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    Over/under on plastic protective shells: 10min after arrival
  • NomadNomad A Small Piece of Hell Icrontian
    edited June 2009
    Too bad it won't ship to Europe with internet explorer.
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