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Genie To Bottle Microsoft
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| How far should Microsoft feel threatened by Linux? Quite a bit, if ARM's CEO
| Warren East is to be believed.
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| "Today the Linux world is not as good as Microsoft from the point of view of
| the user, but it's getting rapidly better," East told me this afternoon, "so
| it will get to be as good as Microsoft and, when that happens, the genie will
| be out of the bottle. Because Linux is much more cost-effective than
| Microsoft. People will ask: 'Why do we use Microsoft?'"
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| East told the FT recently that ARM "almost doesn't care" that ARM-based
| netbooks will not be Windows-based, pointing out that if people find Linux
| and Android just as good an experience as Windows, then Microsoft's
| reluctance to get involved doesn't matter although "it's a dangerous missed
| opportunity for them".
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http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/david-manners-semiconductor-blog/2009/04/genie-to-bottle-microsoft.html
Recent:
Netbooks: Best of the Best
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| The dominant Windows XP (which now runs about 80 percent of netbooks) will be
| challenged by Linux and Google's Andriod OS.
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http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/reviews/article.php/3816986
Are Linux netbooks really returned more often than Windows models?
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| But Philip Solis, an analyst at ABI Research, questions the "reliability" of
| this evidence.
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| Solis said in a March research note that Taiwan's MSI had not yet shipped a
| Linux-based Wind at the time of the comment to the magazine. When it did, it
| did "adapt" the operating system for the netbook's smaller size -- an key
| ingredient to Linux's acceptance by consumers, Solis wrote.
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| Acer, Asus and Dell have all built customized versions of Linux for their
| netbooks. Solis said that Asus has noted equal return rates for Linux
| netbooks versus those running Windows.
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| And while ABI's surveys show U.S. consumers clearly stating their preference
| for Windows netbooks, Solis said that isn't true around the world.
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| In Asia, netbook buyers are both thriftier and "and not as tied to the
| Windows environment," Solis said. "They're looking for certain features, but
| they aren't as tied to a certain brand name."
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| Solis predicts an increase in Linux netbook shipments this year, from 25% to
| a third of the 35 million netbooks expected to sell globally this year. Under
| that estimate, Linux will be shipped on 11.5 million netbook PCs in 2009.
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| Solis is bullish about his prediction because of the coming ARM wave. With
| Microsoft still balking at porting Windows 7 to ARM's mobile CPU, PC makers
| using ARM have no choice but to use Linux.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9131204&intsrc=news_ts_head
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