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____/ Mark Kent on Friday 01 Jan 2010 01:11 : \____
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> Terry Porter <linux-2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:45:53 +0000, Mark Kent wrote:
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>>> Terry Porter <linux-2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:40:30 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>>> ____/ Ian Hilliard on Tuesday 29 Dec 2009 20:12 : \____
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>>>>>> The days of the Windows netbook and their enforced limitations my be
>>>>>> past. It is yet to be seen whether a low cost light weight netbook,
>>>>>> that does not run Windows malware, will be popular in the market
>>>>>> place. I personally believe that it will.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ian
>>>>>
>>>>> Google is going to subsidise ARMs.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> This is great, I can't wait to see the power of Google spreading Linux
>>>> in phones and smartbooks everywhere.
>>>>
>>>> Will we be watching an important historical event, the breaking of
>>>> Microsoft ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The world is going mobile, and Microsoft sell desktop computing...
>>
>> Well said :)
>>
>
> Thank 'ee Zir :-)
>
> On a very serious note, though, as Microsoft have utterly failed to make
> inroads (profitably) into anything mobile (or gaming for that matter), I
> suspect that their only route forward will be to acquire something
> already demonstrably successful.
>
> Palm or Psion would have been a good choice a decade ago, but now, I
> suspect that RIM would be a perfect acquisition choice for MS. My only
> hope here is that the EU stops this on anti-trust grounds.
Microsoft is a sleeping dragon....
Windows Mobile loses nearly a third of market share
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| The open-source Android operating system
| did not have any market share in Q3 2008,
| as it had only recently been introduced. In
| Q3 2009, however, it had a market share of
| 3.9 percent of the smartphone market.
| Palm's WebOS had 1.1 percent, and other
| Linux-based mobile operating systems had
| 4.7 percent.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39877964,00.htm
> MS might also consider making a play for Nintendo, or even buying Sony's
> gaming division, but I doubt Sony will want to sell since there is
> presently so much money in gaming.
The only company making a fortune here is IBM. It's behind the microchips. All the units
are made in Asia and 2/3 companies are from Japan.
Microsoft should have never gotten into this market. It lost many billions.
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