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Netbook? MID? Is This PC Category for Real?
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| "We're providing a totally different value," Ho told InternetNews.com. "You
| don't need [Microsoft] Vista on these devices," he said, which means
| less-demanding hardware requirements.
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http://www.internetnews.com/hardware/article.php/3750841
Here Comes the Asus 'Freee PC'
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| I'm predicting that the successful pricing model for "mini me too" laptops
| will look nothing like the notebook pricing model (where you always pay full
| price for the hardware), and a lot like the cell phone pricing model where
| you buy a service, and the hardware is heavily subsidized or given away free.
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http://www.internetnews.com/commentary/article.php/3750916/Here+Comes+the+Asus+Freee+PC.htm
Last week:
Otellini: 'MID revolution will be centred round Linux'
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| Intel CEO says Microsoft's insistence on pushing Vista will hand market to
| open source rival
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| Intel's CEO has said that he sees the revolution that is about to happen
| around mobile internet devices (MID) such as the Eee PC and other Atom-based
| sub-notebooks will be "centred round Linux", in an interview with Associated
| Press.
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http://www.pcretailmag.com/news/29939/Otellini-MID-revolution-will-be-centred-round-Linux
Recent:
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
Intel CEO mum on Vista's impact
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| Before the question could even be finished, Otellini shook his head and
| said, "no," he was not getting into any discussion about Vista.
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| We considered that not just odd, given Otellini's history of taking on all
| questions, but a sign that Intel is seriously displeased with Vista. If that
| weren't true, why couldn't the CEO muster even a lukewarm response like, "We
| certainly think Vista a superior OS, but after five years in development we
| would have hoped it had more of an impact on creating a demand for PC
| upgrades."
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9846349-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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