blogs.zdnet.com - 1/26/2009
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Gosh, that didn’t take long!
Last July Linux had a huge opportunity to beat Windows in the red-hot netbook market (see Linux for housewives. XP for geeks. ). But faster than I’d expected Microsoft has kicked Linux to the curb, claiming an 80% attach rate for netbooks.
Windows 7 is ...
news.zdnet.co.uk - 1/29/2009
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news.zdnet.co.uk —
David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk Published: 29 Jan 2009 12:10
GMT Acer has confirmed it plans to release a...
Linux version of its 10-inch Aspire One netbook, even though its initial announcement of the upcoming machine said it would be Windows XP-only. Acer ...
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Acer plans Linux, SSD version of 10-inch netbook
theregister.co.uk - 1/22/2009
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theregister.co.uk —
Mark Shuttleworth is looking forward to a good,
clean netbook fight with Microsoft following the release of...
Windows 7. Speaking with The Reg , the founder of popular Linux distro Ubuntu and chief executive of Canonical called Windows 7 a great ...
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Ubuntu's Shuttleworth praises Windows 7, welcomes fight ...
jkontherun.com - 1/22/2009
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jkontherun.com —
We have been warning everyone for months that
the mass appeal of low-cost netbooks was going to...
hit the major players hard. You’ve probably heard today that Microsoft plans to lay off 5,000 employees over the next 18 months due to the hard ...
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Microsoft to reduce staff by 5,000 because of netbooks
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Windows Beating Linux on Netbooks By a Big Margin
AppScout —
... Something happened along the way though--something, which, when you think about it, isn't all that surprising. People stuck with Windows. In a big way. The adoption rate for Windows on netbooks was somewhere in neighborhood of 80 percent. ...
Linux keeps dying
CrunchGear —
... Harris goes on to claim “Windows 7 is the final nail in the desktop Linux market’s coffin. Unless Microsoft gets stupid on pricing, it is game over for Linux netbook market share.” Wait … is Linux losing the desktop market, or the netbook market? ...
Will Windows 7 Put a Dent in Linux Growth? [Ask The Readers]
Lifehacker —
[image] Let's not pretend that a new version of Windows, even one getting great marks, will end an open source OS entirely. But could Windows 7 cut off Linux's potential growth in netbooks and other markets? Photo by zieak . That's what Robin Harris at ZDNet seems to think , and he's note alone in spreading the uncertainty . To summate why many pundits see the promising growth of Linux slowing: Again, as CrunchGear points out , the stories of Linux's death have been greatly exaggerated and re-told many times before, and the idea of a ...
Is it lights out for desktop Linux?
Yahoo! Tech Advisors —
... ZDNet's Robin Harris is taking a hell of a beating over his recent post entitled "Windows kicks Linux to the curb," where he posits that Linux completely blew its chance to become a mainstream operating system after the majority of netbook vendors dropped the free OS they were initially enamored with in favor of good old Windows XP. The latest statistic: In the netbook market, Windows now holds an 80 percent market share, which is astonishing, since it looked like it would end up with a zero percent share when the netbook market got its start. This issue has been bubbling up ...
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crunchgear.com 1/27/2009 —
Hey guys! Guess what! It’s another post about how Windows is kicking the crap out of Linux! Robin Harris over at ZDNet asserts that “Microsoft has kicked Linux to the curb, claiming an 80% attach rate for netbooks.” Wow!
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fastcompany.com 12/22/2008 — As our software becomes more Web-centric and our devices cheaper, Linux is becoming the operating system on everyone’s lips for 2009. Sorry, Microsoft [MSFT]. If this week’s news is any indication, you’ve been served.
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news.cnet.com 1/20/2009 — Back in 2002, Jim Allchin was co-president of Microsoft's Platforms and Services Division and was, in his own words, "scared" of the momentum behind Linux, as noted in an email [PDF] sent to several of his direct reports.
Why scared? Because ...
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Inside the mind of the John Q Windows Fail and You Linux will never make any meaningful headway into the desktop. Nope, never. I could cite market share numbers, growth figures, and total cost of ownership studies, but none of that matters ...
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