Acer Inc. took a big step forward with its multibrand strategy on Tuesday, aiming at increasingly smaller demographic slices of the PC market with the launch of two dozen products ranging from wide-screen, all-in-one PCs to tiny nettops.
While notebooks and the all-in-one PCs will run Vista and -- when it comes out -- Windows 7, for now the netbook lines will be running XP, said Lanci and Jim Wong, head of Acer's IT products business.
The officials were somewhat cautious about Windows 7 on netbooks. "When the new netbooks come out, we'll be able to use XP for about another year," said Wong. "We're negotiating on Windows 7." The negotiations are about "the user experience" he added.
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