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Microsoft earnings drop as netbooks take chunk of PC sales
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| The client division saw its revenue drop by a bit more than $600 million,
| with income down by almost the same amount. The trend of the PC market
| towards netbooks, which either run Linux or a low-cost version of Windows XP,
| undoubtedly hit this division hard. With Windows 7 apparently progressing
| well, however, the light may be visible at the end of the tunnel here,
| provided the company can convince netbook makers to pay more for the
improvements it brings (and consumers are interested in its netbook version).
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http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/04/microsofts-earnings-drop-with-broad-decline-in-revenue.ars
Netbooks bleed Microsoft profits. It's about to get worse
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| After all, Canonical, which develops Ubuntu, the world's leading
| consumer-focused, Linux-based desktop operating system, on Monday released a
| Netbook-optimized Ubuntu distribution, as IDG reports.
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| Better battery life. A nicer visual experience. An operating system tightly
| tuned for applications like e-mail, Web browsing, and office productivity.
| All for a price that is dramatically less than Microsoft Windows...even after
| Microsoft discounts.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10226745-16.html
Recent:
Why Linux Will Crush Windows 7 on Netbooks
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| Linux versions of netbooks are already doing quite well and if Microsoft
| shoots itself in the foot by crippling its OS, the question becomes less
| about choosing between Windows and Linux and more about choosing between
| crippled and “just works.”
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http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Why_Linux_Will_Crush_Windows_7_on_Netbooks
Hands on: Running Windows 7 on a netbook
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| Performance wasn't the only problem I came across. For example, I was unable
| to perform two network-related tasks at once. For example, if I copied a file
| from a network server or watched a YouTube video, life was fine. But if I
| tried to do both things at once, I ended up with a frozen system.
|
| [...]
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| I experienced several difficulties running popular applications on the Dell
| Mini 9. Windows 7's built-in applications, such as Media Center, felt slow to
| respond. Other apps behaved sluggishly as well. For example, Microsoft Word
| 2003 took 27 seconds to launch on the Mini 9; it took only 11 seconds on the
| HP EliteBook 2530p.
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| Some problems, such as abrupt slowdowns when trying to run Microsoft Office
| 2003, Office 2007 and Quicken 2008, were clearly caused by memory problems.
| There simply wasn't enough RAM to run them effectively. When I tried to run
| two or more major applications at the same time, the performance dropped from
| merely miserable to "Is this thing still on?"
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| [...]
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| If you must have Windows on a netbook, XP Home SP3 is still the better choice
| over Windows 7 -- at least, for now. And, even though Microsoft is doing its
| best to kill off XP, it looks like the PC makers aren't going to let
| Microsoft put XP out to pasture after all.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132041
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