Netbooks don't exist, says Microsoft

So, the term netbook is inappropriate because netbooks 'can do more than just Internet browsing'.

My mini-notebook can do more than make mini-notes, though.

I'm trying out Win7 on my netbook (or whatever they're going to be called) and it really does give WinXP a run for its money. Given a choice, I'd use Win7. Win7 is more "aware" of the netbook hardware, which makes it seem to work better than WinXP. Linux is decent too, but I feel I need to use the manufacturer's cut-down distribution because the general distros might not be designed for netbooks.

With the x86-64 extensions in some of the processors, running a 64-bit version of the OS will be very nice as well. It can use just large amounts of RAM instead of pagefiles, which are ill suited for SSDs. Good luck finding a copy of WinXP 64bit or the drivers for it. Win7-64 it is!

I've dumped Windows XP, a few months ago. My options were to upgrade my ram from 2G to 4G and migrate to vista.
Paying a big ammount of money for about the same old stuff annoyed me a lot.
So I gave Ubuntu a try and for the moment i am extreemly happy.
And even I am considering participating in some open source project myself.
The Open Source Software follows the Lean principle. Stuff gets developed because there is a need for it and enough people demand it and have the free time to invest in this.

Call them what you like Microsoft, the rest of the planet will call them netbooks.
This is nothing new, you call Vista an operating system, the rest of the world call it a wobbly pile of bloat infected sh*t.

And then there will be delicious caek

Legal issue with trademark was settled out of the court.
any one can legally use it. It is nit a trademark anymore, just term

NetBook is a legally registered trademark. We must use another good term.

I recommend using the INQ's suggestion: Crotchtop. Everybody repeat with me:

Crotchtop Crotchtop Crotchtop Crotchtop Crotchtop Crotchtop Crotchtop =)

If they didn't complicate things instead of simplifying it.
They want to change a well accepted simple name for a complicated and over explicative one. Following their tradition to bloat everything they put their hands on.
Smaller is smarter!

the 8.9 aspire is a midget netbook

Get a real netbook noob. ;)

I have an Acer Aspire One and I usually refer to it as my "midget laptop"

...or we could just use the original name for small laptops - Subnotebooks.

Let's see,

We don't like the term "netbook" because that term reminds us that we had to allow Windows XP to be sold on them in order to stop the encroachment of Linux in a form factor and at a price point that was attractive to consumers. Considering that Vista wouldn't run on Netbooks, we had no choice.

Now we're going to attempt to get rid of Netbooks altogether by making a crippled version of Windows 7 capable of running on them, but if we call them something with a longer name and price tag, we will make more money? Yea. Sounds like a good plan Mate. Let's see if it works....

... where we can just laugh at Microsoft? Similarly to Timothy Geithner when he says US dollars are safe...

When I get one, I'll just dump Windows for Linux, anyway. Sad thing is, getting stuck with the Windows license because they bribe outfits like Asus to force feed us the crap.

What, they can't find an Irishman to make an OS?

I wish they really did not believe, then maybe my neat little netbook would have a nice, appropriate, functional, un-infected, OS.

Once I get good performance on my x264 video's from Linux, I'm am done with those schmucks. Today Firefox, tomorrow Linux.

You can sit on the beach as long as you like telling the tide to stop, but it won't.

They are netbooks, no matter how much Microsoft's marketing departments wishes them to fit into some nice Windows 7 market segmentation.

Netbooks exist. Get over it.

These are the guys that are still fantasizing about owning the computing market, hence they are trying to redefine a term we all know well that has been around for a while. They are conceded. They have a god complex. They are worthless to us this way.

Netbooks do exist. Get over it.

Embrace, extend, extinguish. Redefining netbooks to something else is simply the extend portion of this philosophy. They do want to extinguish because it is well known that netbooks have cut into their sales.

Netbooks take the XP cadaver back out of the coffin and Microsoft hates to see that, they want to sell us the seven thing, because the vista thing wont run on the netbook. Microsoft also invested lots money into advertising notebooks with large screens (17" inch and perhaps above) and they hate to see that someone else had a better marketing sense and offered a successful option which is way different from theirs. So they reinvented the netbook by calling it "somethingverylongname". I think the term "low cost low weight power efficient small sized portable battery powered multimedia and office personal computer device" would be better recognizable. But that would rise the cost of the advertisement, imagine they will say it twice and the ad is one minute long LOL.

'Low cost small notebook PC' just rolls of the tongue. Why would I need such a succinct term like 'Netbook'? Brevity is overrated.