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Microsoft may begin selling it's new Windows 7 operating system on USB Flash Drives, according to a source at CNET.   This is to enable owners of extremely popular netbooks to install this new Microsoft operating system, since netbooks are so small and light that they are not equipped with CD/DVD drives. 

Netbooks, those appealing inexpensive notebook computers,  such as the Asus Eee PC line, are too lean and mean to run Microsoft's Vista bloatware.  As Microsoft took it's usual course of creating bigger and more unstable/buggy software with it's release of Vista, that required bigger and more powerful computers just to run at all, the rest of the world was moving towards smaller, more effecient, and less expensive computing - a turn that us consumers were demanding, and thankfully, some pioneering PC manufacturers such as Asus and Acer listened to.

So, now Microsoft finds itself without a distribution method for it's latest version of Windows, which they promise to be more slimmed down and not as much of a resourse hog.  Currently it's available as a download, but that can be tricky since if you're installing a new operating system and something goes wrong, it's nice to have the software on some sort of back-up, such as a DVD or USB drive. 

We'll be sure to let you know when that new version of Windows is available on USB drives, as that could make life much easier for installation onto netbooks.  (If you really want to do that instead of installing a version of Linux like Mint, for example).