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Why the Linux netbook crashed and burned
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| This was always Microsoftâs plan since they first were
| cold-cocked by the sudden explosion of customer interest
| in netbooks. When netbooks first came along, they almost
| all ran Linux. Microsoft, which was then stuck with the
| resource pig known as Windows Vista, simply couldnât compete.
| So, reluctantly, Microsoft gave Windows XP Home a new lease
| on life and sold it below cost to OEMs to kill the Linux desktop on netbooks.
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| They were successful. Mind you, the last
| thing Microsoft wanted was for people to keep using
| XP. They wanted, oh how they wanted, users to turn to
| Vista. But, they also didnât want to turn over the low-end to
| Linux. So, instead they dumped XP Home to OEMs at below cost to
| chase Linux off netboooks. It worked.
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| The way things were going to go was clear in June 2009 when,
| I kid you not, Asusâ chairman, Jonney Shih, after sharing a
| news conference stage with Microsoft corporate VP, OEM Division,
| Steven Guggenheimer, apologized for showing an Androd-Linux Eee
| netbook the previous day.
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| Mission accomplished, Microsoft finally shut down the XP
| production line on netbooks on October 22nd, 2010. Today,
| you can still get XP via the downgrade route from some versions
| of Windows 7, but you canât do it for netbooks.
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http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/why-the-linux-netbook-crashed-and-burned/9156
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