El Reg reminds us that Microsoft will stop allowing netbook manufacturers to load XP onto netbooks on October 22.
The same article tells us that Microsoft sells XP at $15 a pop and Windows 7 at $50. Let's see, I sell this netbook for $200 so it can retail at $400. So my cost of an operating system will go from 7.5% to 25% of my selling price. Yeah, right. Linux, anyone? Of course, Microsoft could drop the price for Windows 7. It's not like Microsoft has any marginal costs. But that's thinking entrepreneurally, not exactly a great Microsoft tradition. We will see.
Oh, and some of the comments on the Register article actually proved useful! It turns out that you can move a window up above the top of the screen with either ALT-mouse1 or ALT-F7. That will come in handy for those setup dialogs that don't fit on some netbook displays. But another commenter is correct: that should not be necessary.