Gee, I can buy a Windows netbook or a Linux netbook. The price is the same. Which will I choose? Windows, of course. What do you think I am, stupid?
Apparently, I am not the only one who feels that way. A recent post in Microsoft's Windows Experience blog says that during February, close to 96 percent of netbooks sold shipped with Windows as the OS.
That level of acceptance is one reason I do not have much hope for Google's Android OS as a real competitor on these small machines. Linux is already a lost cause, if for no other reason than that Linux machines are often returned when customers realize what they have purchased.
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