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Job cuts call for Microsoft to rethink Windows client
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| But even Microsoft acknowledged Thursday that a flat PC market could continue
| to affect the overall Office business, while the entertainment and devices
| unit's performance had more to do with holiday sales of the Xbox 360 game
| console than overall growth in that market.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=89&articleId=9126639&intsrc=hm_topic
Recent:
Amid Cannibalization Woes, Netbooks Eat Into Microsoft Sales
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| But most netbooks have less processing power than their full-featured cousins
| and can't run high-spec versions of Microsoft's Windows, the world's
| most-widely used operating system. Instead, the Redmond, Wash.-based software
| company is selling netbook makers lighter versions of its operating system at
| a cheaper price. Worse, some manufacturers are choosing to cut Microsoft out
| altogether by using Linux, an open-source OS.
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200812051742DOWJONESDJONLINE000966_FORTUNE5.htm
Related:
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?
|
| 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
Linux Carried Along on Netbooks Wave
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| Morvay revealed to Linux Magazine Online that there were no specific figures
| for Linux netbook sales, but that it lay somewhere in the 40th percentile.
| Even though this figure seems a little high, it is known that many of the
| world's netbooks have Linux on board since their first inception 18 months
| ago.
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| For example, notebooks with Linux make up about 5.5% of the notebook market
| in Germany...
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http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/linux_carried_along_on_netbooks_wave
End Runs Around Vista
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| Still, the sources say employees in HP's PC division are exploring the
| possibility of building a mass-market operating system. HP's software would
| be based on Linux, the open-source operating system that is already widely
| available, but it would be simpler and easier for mainstream users, the
| sources say.
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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_38/b4100084242512.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_best+of+the+magazine
HP's 'End Run' Around Windows
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| As Hewlett-Packard steps up efforts to make Microsoft's operating system
| easier to use, some want to devise a rival version with Linux
|
| [...]
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| Others in HP's PC division are exploring the possibility of building an HP
| operating system for mainstream desktop and notebook computers based on the
| open-source Linux system, which competes with Windows, say people familiar
| with the company's plans. The goals may be to make HP less dependent on new
| releases of Windows, and to strengthen HP's hand against Apple (AAPL), which
| has gained market share with computers that boast innovative features and
| inspire a loyal following of users.
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2008/tc2008095_077474.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_news+%2B+analysis
Mainstream media writes Windows obit
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| Wow, a tough day for Windows.
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| BusinessWeek reports that HP, the world’s biggest PC company, is so troubled
| by Vista’s ‘tepid reception’ and Apple’s resurgence that it is developing its
| own operating system. Meanwhile a New York Times columnist writes on his blog
| that Windows is “already dying a death by a thousand cuts.”
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/computers/?p=219
Microsoft Is Giving Up on Windows
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| It's true: Microsoft has confirmed that it's abandoning Windows as we know
| it. Cagey as ever, the Microsofties won't say when it'll happen, but they
| have talked a little bit about what the next OS is going to look like--or not
| look like.
|
| [...]
|
| Midori for Linux?
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| One of my smarter-than-me buddies, Gary F., told me that Linus Torvalds
| worked on something called Midori a few years ago, an embedded Linux for
| mobile devices: "I doubt Microsoft would ever release something that could be
| traced back to Linux, but if I recall correctly, Transmeta's Midori had some
| rudimentary 'cloud computing' features vaguely similar to Microsoft's
| Midori." Read "Details emerge on Transmeta's "Mobile Linux" and "Transmeta
| Exports Midori Linux to China" for details.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/149709/microsoft_is_giving_up_on_windows.html
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