Cheap Netbooks on the Rise: Microsoft, Intel Worried?
April 5, 2009
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this author makes a lot of assumptions… and it all just sounds like wishful thinking. netbooks may be a growing sector, but they’re still a niche market. i sincerely doubt that microsoft is very concerned about this. (insert eye roll)
My netbook (like millions) runs Windows XP.
Why would Microsoft WORRY about selling more and more copies of Windows?
Duh.
Wow, that’s fantastic! People on the go can get cheap pocket computers for the price of an internet connection – great! I’m a Japan researcher, so I can’t wait to start my research in Japan and get one of these things. In Tokyo, you take the train every where, so you want to minimize the weight you have to carry – these things make perfect sense. I’m sure in the future they will be merged with cell phones – like the failed pda’s, but better.
The reason that ARM netbooks cannot run Vista is not because of system resources or anything like that. It is simply that Windows only on Intel(-compatible) processors, which ARM is not. So, to say that XP is an alternative is incorrect, becuase XP won’t run on ARM either.