The low-cost laptop offer Microsoft can’t refuse
IDG News Service 3/31/08
Agam Shah, IDG News Service, San Francisco Bureau and Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service, Taipei Bureau
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As the release of low-cost laptops based on Intel’s upcoming Atom processor draws near, Microsoft is getting boxed into a corner. The software company plans to stop selling most Windows XP licenses after June 30, yet most of these low-cost laptops won’t be powerful enough to run Vista when they arrive later this year.
That leaves Microsoft executives with a choice: Do they extend the availability of Windows XP for low-cost laptops, or possibly concede this nascent market to Linux?
The poster child for the low-cost laptop is Asustek Computer’s US$249 Eee PC, which hit the market in October last year and runs the Xandros distribution of Linux. Consumers in the U.S. and elsewhere embraced the laptop, which uses a version of Intel’s Celeron M processor, for its small size and ability to perform basic tasks like Web surfing and e-mail. It became something of an overnight sensation, and that success caught the attention of other hardware makers, including top-tier PC vendors. (leer más…)
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