The point, I think, is to have something called "Windows 7" that runs on netbooks. Microsoft doesn't want to be caught in a position where their flagship product doesn't run on the next big computing platform, letting some competitor become the de facto standard. This was the point of licensing XP for netbooks (a suboptimal solution), and the point of porting Windows to the OLPC XO.
The concerns over application compatibility are moot. If people actually cared about that, they wouldn't be switching to Linux machines.
Running Windows Mobile is not a bad idea, provided they rebrand it "Windows 7 Mobile" and polish it to the point where it looks as much like a "real" operating system as Linux does.
The concerns over application compatibility are moot. If people actually cared about that, they wouldn't be switching to Linux machines.
Running Windows Mobile is not a bad idea, provided they rebrand it "Windows 7 Mobile" and polish it to the point where it looks as much like a "real" operating system as Linux does.