Re: [News] Sub-notebooks Are Harming Microsoft (Margins, GNU/Linux Growth)

[RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:52:32 -0600, Roy Schestowitz  
<newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Netbooks are a win for Microsoft? Think again.
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | And given that price is the most important element of the netbook  
>  market, the | moment Microsoft feels they've solidified their market  
> share and being
> | raising prices, their share will vaporize.  Linux's existence on  
> netbooks will continue to create a loss for them, regardless of how much  
> "market
> | share" they have.  And the best part is, as people get used to Linux  
> on the netbooks, they'll eventually want it on the desktop as well.  And  
> that's something that Microsoft will do anything to avoid.
> `----
>
> http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=521
The problem for them is that there is nothing they can do, especially as  
the price of netbooks go down.
--
RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"