Microsoft Rules Netbooks Now, Linux Lurks - PC World

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Viraj
on March 29, 2009 6:33 PM | | TrackBacks (0)
Linux-based netbooks may encroach on Microsoft's success in the near future. Two looming threats: Google may decide to run its operating system, Android, on netbooks and low-power processors from smartphone chip licenser ARM may take off in netbooks.

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Despite hints that Google may compete on netbooks , nothing is confirmed. For the time being, Linux flavors such as Ubuntu will struggle for consumer and corporate attention on netbooks against the comfort of the Windows brand, analysts say. The software/hardware architecture behind those "90 percent" of netbooks are Windows XP Home Basic and x86-based Atom processors-Intel's smallest and lowest-power microprocessors, which now live inside nearly every netbook on the market.

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