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Microsoft Boasts 96% Netbook Penetration

Posted by kdawson on Monday April 6, 2009 @01:20PM from the sure-you-did dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Citing figures from market research firm NPD, Microsoft says Windows' share of the US netbook market has ballooned from less than 10% in the first half of 2008 to 96% as of February. 'The growth of Windows on netbook PCs over the last year has been phenomenal,' wrote Brandon LeBlanc, Microsoft's in-house Windows blogger, in a post Friday. Information Week author Paul McDougall notes Microsoft's 8% decline in Windows sales is due to netbooks sporting Linux. How does Redmond make an 80% gain in netbook market share without the sales numbers reflecting that gain?"

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I'm sorry by techprophet · 2009-04-06 13:24 · Score: 0, Redundant

I'm sorry, I'm braindead, I was going to put some witty comment in here asking whether it ran linux or if 96% of your base are belong to us, but I can't.
Come back tomorrow, maybe I'll have come up with something.
Re: epic failures by Meski · 2009-04-06 14:49 · Score: 0, Redundant

For this HP killed off PA-RISC?
No, we'll always have PA-RISC.
That was funny.
Re:Honeymoon is over by donaldm · 2009-04-06 23:00 · Score: 0, Redundant

Statistics are a fun think. 98.51% of all statistics are completely made up.
(including this one)
No that is not true 95% of my imaginary friends tell me that, the other 4% insist that it is true while the other 2% can't make up their mind :)

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