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Opinion: Microsoft may shoot itself in the foot with Win 7 pricing
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| But as desktop Linux becomes a significant challenger, Microsoft is losing
| its price advantage. Microsoft managed to snatch the netbook market away from
| Linux by reviving XP Home and offering it to OEMs for next to nothing. It's
| foolish of Microsoft to think it can hold on to that market with restricted
| hardware and bottom-end versions of Windows 7.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=339666
"Windows 7 crippleware!" scream outraged netbook owners
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| Microsoft has once again upset many in the netbook user community with news
| of artificially imposed limitations on the entry level version of its
| upcoming new operating system Windows 7. All over the web netbook users are
| accusing Microsoft of crippling Windows 7 Starter edition for no other reason
| than to extort extra dollars from them.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/25355/1023/
Recent:
Why Windows 7 Will Fail on Netbooks
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| When consumers have a choice and know it, they’re not going to blindly
| embrace whichever pricing schemes Microsoft decides to impose on the market.
| Rather than paying for Windows 7 Home Premium–which is likely to cost as much
| as a netbook itself–costumers will simply opt for Linux.
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| Neither will hardware manufacturers obediently acquiesce to Microsoft’s
| demands as they did in the past. If they find it difficult to sell netbooks
| whose price is doubled by being bundled with Windows, OEMs are likely to
| market Linux-based computers more vigorously–which will, in turn, increase
| public awareness of alternatives to Windows, fueling a cycle that ends with
| the collapse of Microsoft’s monopoly.
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| If Microsoft continues to operate under the delusion that consumers will
| choose Windows simply because they don’t know there’s an alternative that’s
| been embraced by mainstream users and hardware manufacturers, it’s in for a
| painful shock.
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http://www.workswithu.com/2009/05/29/why-windows-7-will-fail-on-netbooks/
Windows 7 on an entry level netbook: first look
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| I loaded PassMark’s PerformanceTest 7.0 benchmarking software which evaluated
| the Acer Aspire One, under Windows 7.0, at 204.2. As with the Windows rating,
| the hard drive was the star performer and the video card was the weak spot,
| rendering complex 3D graphics at an uninspiring 2.3 frames per second.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/24805/1231/
New threat to Windows 7?
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| We’ve had the issue of the “starter” 3 app version of Windows 7. We’ve had
| allegations of Win 7 being a spruced up Vista (or lipstick on a pig) We’ve
| had the EU getting involved in the distribution of IE within the Windows
| platform, but more than that, we’ve had many users/Enterprise not wanting to
| move from XP. (We dont need to mention Vista again here that, IMO is best
| forgotten)
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http://openbytes.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/new-threat-to-windows-7/
Windows 7: 83% Of Businesses Won't Deploy Next Year
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| The survey, of more than 1,100 IT professionals, is one of the first
| extensive looks at Windows 7's early sales prospects. It found that a
| whopping 83% of enterprises plan to skip the OS in its first year. While the
| business market typically tends toward caution when it comes to new products,
| the figure is nonetheless surprising given that almost no large companies
| migrated to Vista and as a result most have been using XP much longer than
| planned.
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| The open source Linux OS also could benefit from slow uptake of Windows 7 in
| the enterprise market, as could Google's Android OS -- which some computer
| makers are reportedly testing as a netbook platform. Fifty percent of those
| surveyed by Dimensional Research said they've considered switching to a
| non-Windows OS to avoid Vista or Windows 7
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216500331&subSection=News
The Windows 7 beta testing disaster
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| So what are Windows 7’s damning problems?
|
| –Windows usage is on the decline, and while Windows XP was an acceptable OS
| from the standards of 2001, both the Mac OS X and Linux distributions such as
| Ubuntu have matured. Microsoft also launched many other business ventures
| that it had hoped to subsidize entirely as loss leaders using Windows and
| Office sales to run the other guys out of business, but with sales of those
| faulting combined with massive XBOX 360 hardware failures, giving up on the
| Zune 2 years in with 4% of the market, and failing to put a chink in Google’s
| services, Microsoft is getting desperate.
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| –They’re not listening to real users, they’re listening to a focus group if
| that, and the focus group gave us the McLean Deluxe, which was a total
| disaster for McDonalds. But unlike McDonalds, Microsoft has the advantage of
| no competitors. If we want to put Windows in the McLean Deluxe analogy,
| Windows thrives because all restaurants are McDonalds, all grocery stores are
| closed, and the only thing on the menu is the mystery meat. At least til
| lately.
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| –Abusing their OEM partners for years hasn’t won them any friends, and
| mainline PC vendors such as HP and Dell are marketing Linux systems now with
| no Microsoft Tax. This isn’t helped by the fact that the only thing Microsoft
| has that is nimble enough to run on the Netbooks that they totally failed to
| see coming is 8 years old (XP) and that they are giving Windows away in a
| massive dumping operation to keep Linux off these things, because Linux is
| far more capable.
|
| –There’s no way to actually file detailed bugs and communicate with Windows
| developers or to have any ETA on a patch if one is coming. If you need help
| it costs $49.99 per incident to get someone that probably knows less than you
| do on the phone. You can’t just go to an IRC room and talk to the person that
| wrote it.
|
| –Windows 7 is in short, Vista all over again. It may be masquerading as a
| huge upgrade but the changes have been trivial, superficial, and usually skin
| deep at best, and “eat my data” and “fail to even load my program” at worst.
| Even my dad saw it running on my test system while he was over the other day
| and thought it was Vista. I had to point to the Windows 7 build number on the
| desktop because there’s almost no way to tell them apart otherwise.
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http://izanbardprince.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/the-windows-7-beta-testing-disaster/
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