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It came with Windows, but I installed Linux to Dual boot.
It came with Linux, but refomatted and installed Windows
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It's impossible to tell.
Loads of Linux netbooks have been sold, so MS can't possibly have 96% of the netbook market.
Also just because people buy a Windows netbook (as I did as they don't seem to have linux netbooks anywhere here) don't mean they actually run it.
I wiped Windows XP after two days of usage from my Asus Eeepc.
Dark Roasted Ubuntu
Sounds like a load of crap to me.
*Finishes reading article*
Yeah, it's crap all right.
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
-Thomas Paine
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Also, that won't be tracking online sales, which is where more linux users, and more consumers in general, would buy.
Amazon have plenty of Linux netbooks, and don't forget all the Dell mini 9's and 12's
5 Cups of Ubuntu
I find it very hard to believe that after all those sales of netbooks Windows has 96%, it is far more likely that there are 96% of netbooks being sold with Windows, especially since they have probably used their strength in the OS market to make manufacturers switch to using XP rather than linux.
Dipped in Ubuntu
It's hard to tell. Someone may buy a Windows netbook but then install Linux on it. But that's still counted as Windows. So the number is higher than it actually is.
Current distro: Kubuntu 11.04 + KXStudio
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And 0% of those run their latest work but an old OS they were trying to get rid of.
Some 'vision' there...
Ubuntu addict and loving it
I cannot see M$ gaining 86% share increase in less than a year. Sounds like BS to me.
He also uses the term "run" Windows. That might be that 96% of the netbooks sold are capable of running Windows. My Aspire One had XP pre-installed, I erased it in favor of Ubuntu.
Just not too long ago M$ was complaining that netbooks were cutting into their OS sales.
Sounds like M$ propaganda.
Windows, only good for gaming.
Just Give Me the Beans!
The person they interviewed, Brandon leBlanc, is normally sensible enough, but he IS payed by MS, and I have found on a few occasions, he must have been thinking things differently from what he was saying, becuase it was his job.
5 Cups of Ubuntu
I would put it closer to 65% or so, maybe even 70%. However they are not even trying to factor in all the people who are switching off of XP in favor of Ubuntu, but they are pretending to factor in those switching off of Ubuntu back to XP.
The fact that they had to resurrect XP after trying to kill it for Vista, just to try to compete with Linux based OS, says a lot.
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