Netbooks - Goodbye Linux - Hello Windows 7
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When Netbooks were first introduced, Linux provided a simple solution to keep the price down on the pint sized laptops. As Netbooks gained popularity, Microsoft took notice and began offering Windows XP for as little as $15 per machine. Rumors began to surface that people who bought Linux Netbooks were sending them back since they thought they were receiving Windows boxes. These rumor later proved false and may of just been a marketing ploy.
But now as Netbooks continue to gain favor with consumers, Microsoft appears to have a stripped down version of Windows 7 that could replace all of the Linux offerings. According to one article it states the following information:
The introduction of the netbook has heralded an era of cheap, portable and convenient computing, but what does the future hold for the netbook? TECH.BLORGE spoke to Lenovo’s Worldwide Competitive Analyst, Matt Kohut, about his vision of the future of netbooks, which involves Windows 7, bigger screens, built-in 3G, touch integration, and lower prices.
Linux fans will no doubt be disappointed that Kohut predicts that Windows 7 will be the dominant operating system on netbooks in the future. According to Kohut, the reason for this is that Windows 7 offers a better, familiar solution, with the benefits of touch.
Interesting analysis. Just when it appeared that Linux may have found a niche market, it appears that Microsoft may stomp it out. But what will consumers buy. Linux or Windows?
What do you think?
Comments welcome.
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Ryan Farmer
May 12th, 2009
at 6:36am
Well, I hope the people that buy these return Windows 7 Third World Edition because they thought they were getting an OS with desktop effects that lets you open more than three windows at once.
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Ryan Farmer
May 13th, 2009
at 12:25pm
I got around to reading that guys anti-Linux tirade in its entirety.
“Linux, even if you’ve got a great distribution and you can argue which one is better or not, still requires a lot more hands-on than somebody who is using Windows.
So, we’ve seen overwhelmingly people wanting to stay with Windows because it just makes more sense: you just take it out of the box and it’s ready to go.”
That doesn’t sound biased or maybe like his salary depends on Microsoft.
Yes that damned Linux where I need to burn discs full of hotfixes and drivers before I install it, get it on my system, realize I don’t have all the hotfixes and I got the wrong drivers, so now I have to get on the internet (unless I got the wrong network drivers) and look for the right make model and such in the manufacturer support page, then assuming I didn’t have to hack something together myself because they don’t support my particular niche version of the OS, I reboot and maybe it works.
So then I go and find antivirus software to protect me from the 300,000 Linux viruses, and hope it works, because nothing is 100% effective, then I have to figure out how to clean junk files, defrag the hard drive (cause the defrag included with Linux is worthless and slow), then it’s about this time that I break Linux Media Player by trying to force it to accept codecs for something other than WMA and MP3 and spend an hour trying to fix that.
Then when that’s done, the browser that comes with Linux is worthless so I have to use it long enough to find and install something else.
This isn’t like Windows at all which already has or provides easy access to everything I want it to do, can be downloaded and burned legally and for free to any blank disc I have laying around, and is entirely open source.
*rolls eyes*
“Windows is easier” my ass, I may have to live with it, but I don’t have to like it.
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technotim
June 2nd, 2009
at 8:02am
I am using Windows 7 on my lenovo s10 netbook right now and out of the box, it runs better than Ubuntu/Kubuntu, Windows XP, and/or Vista. I was surprised and had little hope when I installed it. It seems to be the best OS for high end systems and 10 year old ones, You would be surprise at how well it run. Try it on some 5 year old hardware, you will be impressed, let alone on a netbook.