Microsoft loves netbooks, the ultra-small, ultra-cheap laptops that accounted for about one in every 10 notebooks sold in the last eight months, but only up to a point, a retail analyst said today.
"They love [a] netbook, as long as it's a low-powered companion, accessory PC," said Stephen Baker, an analyst with NPD Group, a market research firm that specializes in watching retail sales. "But they don't want to sell too many of them."
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