Conrad Knauer wrote: > My prediction is that companies which decide to put Windows 7 Starter > (limited to 3 concurrent applications... can we say "crippleware"? ;) > on netbooks are going to have unhappy customers and low sales, those > who continue to preload XP will continue to do well and those that > preload Ubuntu will see increasing sales.
I think you are dead on with a lot of that. Moreover, I think there are two totally different markets for netbooks. One is people that want a cheap laptop with XP. The other is people that want a small, cheap, fast appliance. It seems that a lot of short sighted companies are going after the first market, but forgetting the other. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/05/15/asus_uk_eee_roadmap/ The daddy of the market abandons "small," the fast SSD drive, and Linux. The comments tell the story. Once Windows 7 comes out, and XP is officially killed, Dell may be the only one left in the market, and I think they will do very well. -- Microsoft has a majority market share https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
