I think that vista home basic should run fine out-of-the box on an intel atom netbook, so long as you have enough ram, disable indexing and connect some usb flash drives for readyboost to use.

The HP netbooks come with Vista (the via-based models anyway, not sure about any others). I guess the Atom platform isn't supported on Vista yet otherwise you'd think one of them would be using it.

I wonder how long it will take microsoft to either strip down vista to make it run on netbooks (can't see that happening), or release Windows for netbooks/ultra portables, all be it windows xp without the XP.

Since it can not be good for microsoft that the latest gadget is useing a 7 year old OS