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Lenovo On the Future of the Netbook
thefickler touts an interview in tech.blorge with Lenovo's Worldwide Competitive Analyst, Matt Kohut, who spoke about his vision of the future of netbooks, which involves Windows 7, bigger screens, built-in 3G, touch integration, and lower prices. Linux fans will be disappointed to hear that Kohut thinks Windows 7 will dominate future generations of netbooks because it offers a better, more familiar solution, with the benefits of touch. Quoting Kohut: "The other challenge has been, in order to keep the price points down, a lot of people thought that Linux would be the savior of all of these netbooks. You know, there were a lot of netbooks loaded with Linux, which saves $50 or $100 or whatever it happens to be, based on Microsoft's pricing and, again, from an industry standpoint, there were a lot of returns because people didn't know what to do with it. Linux, even if you've got a great distribution and you can argue which one is better or not, still requires a lot more hands-on than somebody who is using Windows. So, we've seen overwhelmingly people wanting to stay with Windows because it just makes more sense: you just take it out of the box and it's ready to go."
The Microsoft solution represents license fees for the office suits
Coming to a clothing store near you: Tuxedo 2009, with more bling; where does your inner Gentleman want to go today?
But with Microsoft's stance on DRM, does this mean that when I bring home a girl and we're both hot and bothered by each other, helped by our champagne buzz, I have to pay extortion money to the IFPI* before we can get naked?
(*International Federation of the Pornographic Industry)
Everything you see today, only larger, faster and cheaper.
Nice "vision". Where can I get a job like that?
1. Forget about faster ...
2. Forget about cheaper
3. Move to Redmond
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5. Profit!
There was once a company "VA Software,"
They sold Linux on custom hardware,
Their stocks took a dive,
Yet SourceForge did thrive,
And now they own Slashdot, you're aware?
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
"For some reason, I can't seem to get a virus installed."
If you used Windows, it would just work!
Let me see, more expensive, big, fast, windows... Sounds like a... laptop?
Copyright infringement is "piracy" in the same way DRM is "consumer rape"
And google will forever archive that kkwst2 said "I agree there's obviously a sweet spot, but for me it's more like 12-13 inches rather than 10."
-The world would be a better place if everyone had a hoverboard