A heavy tile is falling on the heads of those in recent days moved quickly to buy at attractive prices with a Netbook(VGP-BPS9/B battery) Intel Atom N270 and N280. How many of us we decided to do the deal right then opt for an upgrade in the future ? Well we have miscalculated. In fact , all devices on the market now and during the summer on board with Windows XP will not be able to have easy and free upgrade to Windows 7 as it happens for notebook computers.

netbook-wp-upgradeThis news network was justified by Digitimes , justifying the enormous cost producers on the basis of management that should be facing for this upgrade. The price of the OEM version of Windows XP Home Edition, is now $ 29 , while the price of Windows 7 is $ 54. The difference is too much according to the manufacturers and therefore not be able to do a good competitive price on the devices. The only possibility is that Microsoft agrees to the contract they proposed to reduce the cost , but it seems that the real solution is that the update impossible.

Therefore U-turn is happening in their choice of devices. In fact, both manufacturers of netbooks(HP Pavilion DV2000 battery) that buyers are beginning after this news, to have a dwindling interest for Windows 7. Will probably be a wake-up call for Microsoft? This will be the straw that will change his mind the boys in Redmond ? Who knows … the fact is that the ability to install native Windows 7, are taking the idea of moving exclusively to PC with Intel Atom N450 , while very few (only Asus that matter) who have thought about an upgrade for at least models equipped with Intel Atom N280 .

The agreement with Microsoft applications have been made to date from Asus , MSI , Acer and HP hope to have a positive input , so as not to disappoint the expectations of our customers confident that an upgrade can be simple and have already bought for today Netbook(Dell Vostro 1710 battery) reference. The idea however is to not increase the hardware costs also at risk of losing income economy but in order not to lose accuracy. A joke that will cost a lot to Microsoft? We’ll see.

Meanwhile, negotiations with other software companies continue to be overwhelmingly ahead. Firstly after Linux, we see that Android is becoming a ball of many hardware manufacturers seen as the operating system of the future. All producers are ready to decline Microsoft to take place in the world of netbooks(Dell Latitude D630 battery). But hardly Bill Gates would be interested to lose market for a few hundred million dollars in software.