You can now upgrade a netbook from Windows 7 Starter to Home Premium
But it costs not more than $80 to upgrade
Microsoft provides with a choice of pre-loading Windows 7 Home Premium or Windows 7 Starter Edition for the netbook makers on low price net books. But the netbook makers would like to go for Windows 7 starter as it is cheap. They wouldnt go for Home premium unless there’s huge demand for a fast operating system.
Well netbook owners have a choice instead going for an upgrade to Home Premium; they can clean the hard drive and install a Linux distribution like Ubuntu for free. Or they can spend $80 to upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium. Microsoft unveiled the price of the "anytime upgrade" recently.
People buy netbooks as their secondary machines, not as a desktop or laptop replacements, but after using it eventually decide they are using it as their primary every-day PC. $80 is not a big amount to pay for the operating system upgrade, but people paying $299 for a computer is a lot of bucks. Windows 7 Home Premium has some added features that are missing in Windows 7 Start. They are Remote media streaming advanced taskbar functions including taskbar previews, the Aero Peek desktop effect, and the ability to change your desktop background.
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