* Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
> ____/ El Tux on Sunday 09 March 2008 20:59 : \____
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>> From some history I know and some rumors I hear on the blogs, it seems
>> pretty certain that Microsoft is going to cut some special deal with
>> Asus to push Linux off the Eee's. I almost hope they do because Linux
>> excels at portability to machines large and small, whereas MS is having
>> to kludge Windows to make it fit on such limited hardware. Then there's
>> still the matter of stripping down all those big bloated *closed-source*
>> Windows applications so Windows and a useable number of apps fit on a 2G
>> flash drive. However, the hardware will be linux-compatible, and
>> distro's that are more appropriate to the machine are free, so this
>> could actually just end up making MS look bad.
>
> It is true (I know this from someone) that Microsoft offered significant
> discounts to ASUS, but that's the type of thing that makes Linux Microsoft's
> #1 threat. Sooner or later, Microsoft may have to just give away Windows for
> free. The operating platform has become a commodity... or is soon getting
> there.
Windows XP on low-end machines -- Microsoft will have to /give it away/.
--
The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to
factor large prime numbers.
-- Bill Gates, The Road Ahead (1995), hardcover edition (corrected in
paperback)
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