Microsoft eating up U.S. and global netbook markets

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Microsoft eating up U.S. and global netbook markets
But Linux developers not lying down
By John Fontana , Network World , 04/09/2009

Microsoft's chest thumping last week over its 96% share of the U.S. netbook market for February doesn't appear to be just its normal bravado as the company also is charging toward dominance on a global front.

According to statistics from IDC, Microsoft owned 76% of the global netbook market in 2008 and that number will only get bigger in the coming years.

In 2008, Linux came in with a share of 24% and IDC predicts that number will be in the single digits come the end of this year.

Globally, IDC says 10 million netbooks shipped in 2008. That number is expected to double this year and grow by 25% in 2010.
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Good for Microsoft.

OSS still has someways to go.
 
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Lol, 96%. There is no way MS has 96% of the Netbook market and this has been disputed on the net a few times.

Wonder what they are going to claim when all the ARM based Netbooks are released this year...
 
You need to look at the definition of a NetBook according to the Research:

"*Netbook PCs are small notebook PCs with a screen size 10.2" and smaller and a price under $500."

That includes a lot of notebooks in the definition.
 
Abe said:
You need to look at the definition of a NetBook according to the Research:

"*Netbook PCs are small notebook PCs with a screen size 10.2" and smaller and a price under $500."

That includes a lot of notebooks in the definition.
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Like?
 
The target market for Netbooks is students and mobile business users isn't it?

If so then it makes sense Microsoft will dominate. MS, for all it's faults, is easy to use and doesn't require any technical know how to operate. This isn't true for Linux. I've tried to use Linux a few times and you eventually end up having to install and configure stuff that requires you to use technical command prompt type inputs. For an end user this means Linux doesn't work. Simple as that.

Does Mac make Netbooks? Not that I know of. I saw the Dell and Lenovo Netbooks the other day in a PC store. They seem to me to be the first few that don't look and feel like toys. The ASUS and ACER models are extremely toy-ish in my opinion.
 
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Yea i got my dell mini 9 yesterday running windows 7 with a 8gb ssd and 900mb free :). Windows 7 actually runs faster than the xp version that came with dell. Plus it looks amazing as well, xp looks nasty on a netbook.
 
ponder said:
Those are all netbooks. Not my fault they are being referred to as notebooks.

Anyway, it does not matter.
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The point I was trying to make is that there are machines now included in the definition of a Netbook that up until a couple of months ago, would have been referred to as Notebooks. These are the types of machines that would typically run Windows Home Edition and not Linux as they are entry level, low powered laptops for the masses.
 
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