Atom N270 and N280 processors will not be offered upgrades to Windows 7

Most of the Netbook vendors have decided that they won’t be offering upgrades to Windows 7 to the netbooks running Windows 7. Currently, the netbook vendors have to pay just $25 for each XP license. And there are reasons why Windows 7 won’t be offered to N270 netbook users. Microsoft will be charging $45 per license for Windows 7 and thus, vendors will be forced to increase the cost of the netbook. If they keep the prices same, it may hurt the profits.

Right now, plans are to introduce Windows 7 to the netbooks that will be equipped with Atom N450 processor, which will be introduced in the month of October this year.

Although, I’m sure that there are many of us who are just not bothered whether our netbook vendors give us the option to upgrade to Windows 7 till we are able to get everything working ourselves.

[via digitimes]

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6. Carol says:

   June 12, 2009 at 6:26 pm

   Same here, Kamal. I would rather buy the version of my choice instead of getting what the vendors offer
7. Marcos says:

   June 12, 2009 at 6:27 pm

   I am all set to retire XP from all of my notebooks and netbooks ASA ‘7′ is released
8. Ben says:

   June 12, 2009 at 6:30 pm

   I do not care. The first thing I did was remove windows and install Ubuntu on my Aspire One D150. Damn, i aint going to be affected by this at all. :)
9. Chris M says:

   June 12, 2009 at 6:32 pm

   Damn, I just got myself an EEE with XP. I could have waited till october.
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35. Traveler says:

    July 7, 2009 at 4:52 pm

    I was looking for a netbook good enough to carry on when travelling. The N270 is cheaper, but the N280 doesn’t seem much better, but the N270 model PCs have lighter weight… So I am quite undecided.
    Windows XP is enough for me, but I am anxiously waiting for the 7 to appear for my desktop machine :)
36. php rounded corners says:

    August 11, 2009 at 7:50 pm

    my EEE works very well :)