Windows 7 May Come on Flash Drives

Windows 7 is supposed to be released on optical media, which has led a lot of people to wondering what will happen with netbooks. Why? The majority don’t have optical drives. How are users supposed to install and/or upgrade their operating systems?

To solve this problem, Microsoft is considering offering the Windows 7 operating system on a flash drive. Since most netbooks come with USB ports, this would be a relatively easy solution to the problem at hand.

Another option that Microsoft is considering is selling a downloadable version of Windows 7. With this method, users can use their own flash drives to make a bootable copy of the operating system installer.

This is something that Microsoft already does today for existing Windows OSes, so it wouldn’t be surprising if they did it for the newest version.

Via TomsHardware.