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Microsoft threats killed the Linux netbook, not a lack of quality

Microsoft threats killed the Linux netbook, not a lack of quality

Posted Sep 24, 2009 9:20 UTC (Thu) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750)
In reply to: Microsoft threats killed the Linux netbook, not a lack of quality by JesseW
Parent article: LinuxCon: Some advice from Uncle Dirk

The also dropped Windows' price to one fourth of the original, for netbooks. Which is actually something of an advancement in its own right. Of course, the actual value of their software might be described as less than zero, but still.


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Microsoft threats killed the Linux netbook, not a lack of quality

Posted Sep 24, 2009 14:10 UTC (Thu) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]

Except now that they've killed Linux on the netbook, they've jacked up the prices for Windows 7 "Starter" (ugh) http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/06/microsoft-c...

ARM netbooks and places like System76 continue to be our friends. Maybe we can yet keep this genie out of the bottle.

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