Windows 7 leaves netbook market open for Linux
Microsoft's newest operating system Windows 7 will leave much of the burgeoning netbook market open for Linux because of its relatively large footprint. This was confirmed to iTWire by a local Microsoft executive today, although she did not spell it out in those words.
The latest guidance of the minimum system requirements for Windows 7, announced with the RC version of the operating system, indicate that the new operating system will only work on high-end netbooks with specs approaching that of notebooks.
The requirements of a 1GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, 16 GB of disk and DirectX 9 graphics device all easily exceed the specs of many entry level netbooks.
In fact, they exceed the specs of the Eee PC 1000HD with a Celeron 900MHz processor - yet this writer is running an early Windows 7 Beta build with reasonable performance. Either Microsoft has got the minimum specs wrong or Windows RC needs more power than the Beta version.
A chat with local Microsoft management provided only vague answers to this question.
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