Posted on 06/03/2009 1:29:07 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Microsoft on Tuesday set the October delivery date for a new version of its Windows operating system, which is designed to help it better exploit the rapidly growing market for netbooks.
A Microsoft representative acknowledged that the company plans to announce the October availability date for Windows 7 at a conference in Taiwan on Wednesday.
While Microsoft enjoys a dominant position in providing operating-system software for netbooks, the no-frills version of Windows it currently makes available for the devices provides a relatively meager financial return.
But by initially making a constrained, "starter" version of Windows 7 available for netbooks, with an option to upgrade to a more costly variety on the same machine, Microsoft hopes to reap more profits from an increasingly important market.
Data from research firm IDC showed that shipments of netbooks grew sevenfold to roughly 4.5 million in the first quarter of this year. Total netbook shipments in 2009 should double those last year, reaching 22 million, IDC said.
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MICROSOFT - the ugly girl who always shows up late to the party and then goes home alone.
I’m driving on the Linux rail at this point. I use Vista Ultimate on my game machine at home, but every other system in my environment is Fedora or Ubuntu.
Tired of MicroSloth and their bloatware.
The ugly girl who has sex with all the guys at the party, goes home with a boatload of money, and leaves them all with VD.
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