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Microsoft's business model is done
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| I've been playing with one of many new systems that are hitting the market
| which allow the user to quickly boot the machine and go directly to a small
| version of Linux rather than wait to load Windows.
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| [...]
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| Until now, the average computer user has been ignoring this trend. But the
| economic conditions and the emergence of powerful inexpensive computing has
| to make people rethink the Microsoft proposition.
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| If Intel can provide users with powerful little systems for $99 and has been
| pushing prices lower and lower over the years, why can't Microsoft? Intel
| makes elaborate hardware in billion-dollar factories. Microsoft stamps out a
| disk.
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| This discrepancy has to end soon.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/microsoft-business-model-over/story.aspx?guid={4C81119F-100F-4D73-95AD-80424E949DC1}&dist=TNMostRead
Recent:
Cheap PCs Weigh on Microsoft
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| But most netbooks have less processing power than their full-featured cousins
| and can’t run high-spec versions of Windows, the world’s most widely used
| operating system. Microsoft is selling netbook makers cheaper, lighter
| versions of its operating system, but some manufacturers cut it out
| altogether by using Linux, an open-source OS. About 30% of netbooks, which
| sell for as little as $300, run a version of Linux.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/12/08/cheap-pcs-weigh-on-microsoft/
One Third of Dell Inspiron Mini 9s Sold Run Linux
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| Dell attributes part of the Linux growth to competitive pricing on the Ubuntu
| SKUs. “When you look at the sweet spot for this category it is price
| sensitivity, and Linux enabled us to offer a lower price entry point,” added
| Dell senior product manager John New.
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http://blog.laptopmag.com/one-third-of-dell-inspiron-mini-9s-sold-run-linux
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?
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| 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
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