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Are Netbook vendors putting Windows where Linux should be?
I've read almost a dozen articles in the past week about Netbook computers and am sorely disappointed with some of the news about them. The general consensus is that Windows dominates the Netbook space. The info was gathered from sales reports by Asus, MSI, Dell and Sylvania. This news is an amazing smackdown to those of us who were hoping that the Netbook space would be overwhelmingly Linux-owned.
If you go to Amazon.com, Bestbuy.com, Target.com, etc... you can find plenty of Linux netbooks of all sorts. Anything you desire in a netbook can pretty much be had preloaded with Linux. Where are all the Linux netbooks? Any reasonable place you decide to look for them.
I still think that the fact that Linux has 30% of netbook sales is not a defeat. It's an amazing victory for an OS that had negligible preload sales just 18 months ago.
@Sander: Good for Matt Hartley. Stan Beer, on the other hand, is 100% FUD 100% of the time.
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I still think that the fact that Linux has 30% of netbook sales is not a defeat. It's an amazing victory for an OS that had negligible preload sales just 18 months ago.