It seems that Microsoft is working on the starter edition of Windows 7 though the news hasn’t been confirmed till yet. According to Mary Jo Foley Microsoft has sent invitations to the participants of the Windows 7-beta program from Chile, Egypt, Lebanon, Brazil, Jordan and India to test this version of Windows 7.
According to the mail sent to the testers Microsoft is looking for testers with machines that adhere to the following spec list:

1 GHz processor
1 GB of system memory
16 GB of available disk space
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As we have already reported earlier about the Microsoft’s upgrade plan leak here ,tech ARP is reporting that the  Windows Vista PCs purchased by end users between July 1, 2009 through TBD (to be determined)” would qualify for the Windows 7 Tech Guarantee program.
The following are the specific upgrade paths:
Windows Vista  Home Premium -> Windows 7 Home Premium
Windows Vista Business -> Windows 7 Professional
Windows Vista Ultimate -> Windows 7 Ultimate
Just check our previous post mentioned above for detailed information about it

MyDrivers.com reports that on December 10, Microsoft has released a report to all OEM partners on Windows 7 technical support for the draft plan,so that the OEM partners could give feedback regarding  this to the company by January 10 which would be the release date of the official program of the project.
The plan is designed to help Microsoft’s OEM partners who have been selling pre-installed Vista as a  brand, because many end users would be waiting for the release of Windows 7 and delay the purchase of a computer.The plan …