TLDR: Media creation tool to offer Windows Lean in list - where can it be obtained? Netbook with "Windows 10 Lean supplied needs reinstall - can I replace with Windows 10 Home using media created with 'today's' version of Windows 10?

I have come across a netbook with "Windows 10 Lean" reportedly installed on it at purchase. The user has (re)installed a full home version of Windows 10 on it and now reported that it has "stopped working... reporting out of space..." etc. Sounds quite plausible so I thought best action was simply to reinstall from USB media - but user did not create recovery media! My latest media creation for Windows x64 (created using -gb/software-download/windows10 ) does not show "Windows Lean" in its list though - despite many bing image search results clearly showing a "Windows 10 lean x64" option on the splash screen?

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Plenty of bing search results describing the launch etc but nothing about what became of it, I wonder if it was discontinued again, has changed into something else. What is current recommend Windows 10 OS for a very low spec netbook (I'm waiting for user to send actual specification of hardware)?

A netbook is a small and inexpensive laptop designed primarily as a means of accessing the Internet. Netbooks were sold from 2007 until around 2013, when the widespread advent of smartphones and tablets eclipsed their popularity.

At their inception in late 2007,[1] as smaller-than-typical laptop computers optimized for low weight and low cost,[2] netbooks began appearing without certain then-standard laptop features (such as an optical drive), and with less computing power than in full-sized laptops. They ranged in size from about 5" screen diagonal to 12", with a typical weight of about 1 kg (2.2 pounds), and were often significantly less expensive than other laptops.[3]

Soon after their appearance, netbooks grew in size and features, and converged with smaller laptops and subnotebooks until the specs were so similar that there really was no distinction between the devices.[4] At their peak, the low cost gave them a significant portion of the laptop computer market.

The OLPC project followed the same market goals laid down by the eMate 300 eight years earlier.[9][10] Known for its innovation in producing a durable, cost- and power-efficient netbook for developing countries, it is regarded as one of the major factors that led more top computer hardware manufacturers to begin creating low-cost netbooks for the consumer market.[11]

When the first Asus Eee PC sold over 300,000 units in four months, companies such as Dell and Acer took note and began producing their own inexpensive netbooks. And while the OLPC XO-1 targets a different audience than do the other manufacturers' netbooks, it appears that OLPC is now facing competition. Developing countries now have a large choice of vendors, from which they can choose which low-cost netbook they prefer.[12]

By late 2008, netbooks began to take market share away from notebooks.[13] It was more successful than earlier "mini notebooks," most likely because of lower cost and greater compatibility with mainstream laptops.

Having peaked at about 20% of the portable computer market, netbooks started to slightly lose market share (within the category) in early 2010, coinciding with the appearance and success of the iPad.[14] Technology commentator Ross Rubin argued two and a half years later in Engadget that "Netbooks never got any respect. While Steve Jobs rebuked the netbook at the iPad's introduction, the iPad owes a bit of debt to the little laptops. The netbook demonstrated the potential of an inexpensive, portable second computing device, with a screen size of about 10 inches, intended primarily for media consumption and light productivity."[15] Although some manufacturers directly blamed competition from the iPad, some analysts pointed out that larger, fully fledged laptops had entered the price range of netbooks at about the same time.[16]

With the introduction of Chromebooks, major manufacturers produced the new laptops for the same segment of the market that netbooks serviced. Chromebooks, a variation on the network computer concept, in the form of a netbook, require internet connections for full functionality. Chromebooks became top selling laptops in 2014. The threat of Google ChromeOS based Chromebooks prompted Microsoft to revive and revamp netbooks with Windows 8.1 with Bing. HP re-entered the non-Chromebook netbook market with the Stream 11 in 2014.[27].

In 1996 Psion started applying for trademarks for a line of netBook products that was later released in 1999.[29] International trademarks were issued (including U.S. Trademark 75,215,401 and EUTM 000428250) but the models failed to gain popularity[30] and are now discontinued (except for providing accessories, maintenance and support to existing users).[31] Similar marks were recently rejected by the USPTO citing a "likelihood of confusion" under section 2(d).[32][33][34]

Despite expert analysis that the mark is "probably generic",[35] Psion Teklogix issued cease and desist letters on December 23, 2008.[36][29][37] This was heavily criticized,[38][39][40] prompting the formation of the "Save the Netbooks" grassroots campaign which worked to reverse the Google AdWords ban, cancel the trademark and encourage continued generic use of the term.[30] While preparing a "Petition for Cancellation" of U.S. Trademark 75,215,401 they revealed[41] that Dell had submitted one day before[42] on the basis of abandonment, genericness and fraud.[43] They later revealed Psion's counter-suit against Intel, filed on February 27, 2009.[44]

It was also revealed around the same time that Intel had also sued Psion Teklogix (US & Canada) and Psion (UK) in the Federal Court on similar grounds.[45] In addition to seeking cancellation of the trademark, Intel sought an order enjoining Psion from asserting any trademark rights in the term "netbook", a declarative judgment regarding their use of the term, attorneys' fees, costs and disbursements and "such other and further relief as the Court deems just and proper".[46]

On June 2, 2009, Psion announced that the suit had been settled out of court. Psion's statement said that the company was withdrawing all of its trademark registrations for the term "Netbook" and that Psion agreed to "waive all its rights against third parties in respect of past, current or future use" of the term.[47]

Netbooks typically have less powerful hardware than larger laptop computers and do not include an optical disc drive that contemporaneous laptop computers often had. Netbooks were some of the first machines to substitute solid-state storage devices, instead of the traditional hard disk drive commonly found on laptop and desktop computers at the time.[48] This was due to solid-state drives being smaller, more power efficient, and more shock resistant. Unlike modern solid-state drives, these early models often did not offer better performance.

Most netbooks used low-end, x86 processors focused on low power consumption. The majority of early netbooks typically used processors from the Intel Atom line, but some used competing processors from AMD, including netbook APUs,[50][51] or VIA Technologies, including the C7 and Nano. Some very low-cost netbooks use a system-on-a-chip Vortex86 processor designed for embedded systems.[52][53][54][55] A few netbooks used non-x86 processors based on ARM or MIPS architectures.[56][57]

For Windows 7, Microsoft introduced a new stripped-down edition intended for netbooks known as "Starter", exclusively for OEMs. In comparison to Home Premium, Starter has reduced multimedia functionality, does not allow users to change their desktop wallpaper or theme, disables the "Aero Glass" theme, and does not have support for multiple monitors.[63][64]

For Windows 8, in a ploy to counter ChromeOS-based netbooks and low-end Android tablets, Microsoft began to offer no-cost Windows licenses to OEMs for devices with screens smaller than 9 inches in size. Additionally, Microsoft began to offer low-cost licenses for a variant of the operating system set up to use Microsoft's Bing search engine by default.[27][65][66][67]

Google's Android software platform, designed for mobile telephone handsets, has been demonstrated on an ASUS Eee PC and its version of the Linux operating system contains policies for mobile internet devices including the original Asus Eee PC 701.[69] ASUS has allocated engineers to develop an Android-based netbook.[70] In May 2009 a contractor of Dell announced it is porting Adobe Flash Lite to Android for Dell netbooks.[71] Acer announced Android netbooks to be available in Q3/2009.[72] In July 2009, a new project, Android-x86,[73] was created to provide an open source solution for Android on the x86 platform, especially for netbooks.

Netbooks have sparked the development of several Linux variants or completely new distributions, which are optimized for small screen use and the limited processing power of the Atom or ARM processors which typically power netbooks. Examples include Ubuntu Netbook Edition, EasyPeasy, Joli OS and MeeGo. Both Joli OS and MeeGo purport to be "social oriented" or social networking operating systems rather than traditional "office work production" operating systems. Netbook users can also install other UNIX-based operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Darwin.[78]

Since 2010, major netbook manufacturers no longer install or support Linux in the United States. The reason for this change of stance is unclear, although it coincides with the availability of a 'netbook' version of Windows XP, and a later Windows 7 Starter and a strong marketing push for the adoption of this OS in the netbook market. However, companies targeting niche markets, such as System76 and ZaReason, continue to pre-install Linux on the devices they sell.

Mac OS X has been demonstrated running on various netbooks as a result of the OSx86 project,[79] although this is in violation of the operating system's end-user license agreement.[80] Apple has complained to sites hosting information on how to install OS X onto non-Apple hardware (including Wired and YouTube) who have reacted and removed content in response.[81] One article nicknamed a netbook running OS X a "Hackintosh." The MacBook Air can be considered an expensive netbook. e1438dca32