WhatTheyThink.com's Economics and Research Center
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| Other small devices with an eye toward connectivity include the Asus Eee; the
| company expects to sell 5 million units this year, worldwide. The typical
| configuration sells for $400. About 60% will be Windows XP-based, with the
| balance using Xandros Linux. Other products include the Intel Classmate,
| Everex Cloudbook, and the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) computers. The Everex
| and OLPC run Linux. There has also been significant progress in the
| development of 3D applications that make reading and navigating on these
| devices easier and more like a book or magazine. FFEI, the FujiFilm Graphics
| spin-out, and Dalim’s Virtual Library are two examples.
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http://members.whattheythink.com/home/drjoe221.cfm
Microsoft Jack is meanwhile pimping pink Vista. Cheap shot at Linux? Maybe not.
Your call:
Windows Vista -- prettier in pink, and cheaper?
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| If only Microsoft UK would stack up a few shelves with copies of Vista
| Ultimate at £25 each then it would probably sell a few. Even at £29.99, it
| would be half the RRP of a boxed copy of Xandros Desktop OS Professional
| (Linux).
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http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/03/31/windows_vista_prettier_in_pink_and_cheaper.html
GNU/Linux has reportedly gained _another_ 0.5% market share in large
enterprises in just one year, says a survey, And Linux was only measured in
places that are typically classical Windows shops in the country most
opposed/allergic to Linux. Probably yet another good sign of growth in the
_least expected places_.
Related and recent:
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that. Perhaps Google on that layer, although frankly speaking,
| most of what we have there is upside. We're small and they're big. (With)
| most things, we're big and the other guy is small, so we have more to lose
| than gain. In this case, we have more to gain than to lose with Google.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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