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Android netbooks will fall to Windows stronghold, Linux indifference

Posted by caitlyn on · 4 comments
CIO; By Shane O'Neill
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Should Microsoft be scared about Google expanding its mobile OS Android to netbooks? Well, how scared can a company be when it owns 98 percent market share of something? Not very. Let's face it: The netbook "battle" between Windows and Linux is a straight-up massacre.

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Plus CIO is terrible site. It takes forever to load and it crashes my Firefox.
caitlyn Story submitter ·
What bothers me about this article -- and why I wanted it ripped to shreds on LXer.com -- is that CIO (and IT Pro for that matter) have a target audience of top IT decision makers. The folks who, with or without sufficient technical knowledge, decide the fate of Linux in much of corporate America. The sad thing is that it doesn't get more pro-Microsoft than CIO.

Don't you just love it when technology that hasn't even reached the market yet is dismissed out of hand?
Quoting:The sad thing is that it doesn't get more pro-Microsoft than CIO.


Well, at least I found one nice article on their site:

http://www.cio.com.au/article/300995/has_ubuntu_reached_end_...

and I like the article about Microsoft Dynamics vs. SAP/Oracle as well.
Here's another nice CIO article as well: http://www.cio.com/article/28487/The_Enterprise_Committer_Wh...

Yeah, a bit of a self-pimp as I was interviewed for that one :-)

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