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Microsoft To Offer Windows 7 On USB Thumb Drives?

Posted by timothy on from the please-send-me-your-repurposable-drives dept.

Barence writes "Microsoft is reportedly considering offering Windows 7 on USB thumb drives to allow netbook owners to upgrade their machines. Windows has, until now, only been distributed on DVDs or via download. However, netbooks don't have optical drives and the Windows 7 ISO weighs in at 2.3GB, which would take several hours to download on an average broadband connection and potentially do serious damage to a customer's broadband data cap."

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  1. Idiots. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Whoever installs Windows 7 on a goddamn netbook is a dumb, dumb motherfucker.

    1. Re:Idiots. by The+End+Of+Days · · Score: 0, Troll

      Cunt. Motherfucker. Cum dripping from your father's anus.

      There, be offended. Also, welcome to the internet. Your old-fashioned oppressive ideas of etiquette are meaningless here.

  2. AC To Offer Advice On Sticking Thumb Up Your Ass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    because if you are really this excited about installing another not-yet-ready-for-prime-time Microsoft OS on your netbook, you really need to stuff a thumb up your ass (after removing Bill Gate's semi-flaccid cock)

  3. It would destroy your USB stick by SplashMyBandit · · Score: -1, Troll
    • I'm trying Win7 at the moment. It is simply Vista but with less bad performance. Device compatibility is an issue, it supports fewer devices out-of-the-box than the Ubuntu 9.04 install I put on the same machine. You can use the Vista drivers for most hardware (which is why you know it's actually just a re-branded Vista) but that doesn't always work.
    • One thing I noticed is that my hard drive light it pulsing every few seconds. I wonder whether that is a background indexing service doing its thing? Anyway, given the finite number of writes to a USB drive getting written to every second would destroy your device within months (there are 86400 seconds in a day).
    • Oh yeah, I haven't installed Windows for a while so I'd forgotten that for the 8GB install you pretty much only get Notepad and Wordpad. Just so lame compared to Linux on a stick.
    • It is good to see Microsoft making progress in this area, but Windows 7 is usable but still a pretty average product (despite the fanboi hype working overtime).
  4. hello, i live in times square by circletimessquare · · Score: 0, Troll

    what is this "backwoods" that you speak of?

    what subway line do i need to take to get there?

    is there any parkland, you know, trees, which i have heard fables of, in this "backwoods" place?

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    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
  5. Holla if Jacko sucked your underage cock! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hey hey hey!!!

  6. Re:It's Amazing by Jurily · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ubuntu fits on a single CD. I haven't added more than one or two extra Gigs

    Nice definition of "fits". I can understand that there's no room for development files on a newbie CD, but by that reasoning, where's mplayer then? And why do they ship a music player that can't play mp3?