After takin' a swig o' grog, Homer belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Chris Ahlstrom spake thusly:
>
>> Why? Because Microsoft won't let vendors run XP Home, or Windows 7,
>> on netbooks with more than 1GB of RAM.
>
> What was the /official/ reason for this bizarre decision?
>
> I can understand them planning to enforce a "three app limit" on Vista
> 7, because that's probably all it can manage to cope with on a netbook,
> but insisting on low /hardware/ specs just makes no sense at all.
>
> My only conclusion is they're attempting to game the market into
> rejecting netbooks in favour of more "Windows-capable" machines.
Check out Rasker's post on the Microsoft/ASUS collusion. Microsoft
is going to buy out the netbook market. Then they can dump it if they
feel that gives them the most leverage.
Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.
> Fortunately their little dictum is irrelevant to ARM systems, as Windows
> can't run on them anyway, as Fuddie likes to keep reminding us for some
> odd reason.
Oh, my guess on that is that money will convince many vendors to simply
avoid ARM machines (or price them out of saleability).
Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.
--
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you.
This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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