Netbooks Are Taking a Toll on Microsoft

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Netbooks Are Taking a Toll on Microsoft

What has been up, must eventually come down.

Sadly it will take a lot more than that to make any real diffrence.

odd thing is Microsoft (and google too) got a revenue of about $4 billion USD and they are doing layoffs...

Yep that's right and its about time to see Microsoft crash and burn perhaps now things will really heat up and all the computer software companies can finally have a chance to grab some of the glory.

Exactly!

Good. Microsoft sure as hell deserves to die.

Being who I am with technology I couldn't bare to see Microsoft die, Apple does not have a Tablet PC, and probably never will. If there was too much sompetition in computing, it would be harder for gaming, as some companies would favour one over another, and it would become like owning a console (of which I own a 360 wii, and ps2 because of games not being released on all)... Also, you cannot upgrade a mac like you can a pc. I like being able to custom build my own computers, can't do that with a mac. If mac had a bigger market share, Apple would lose their ability to market as being virus and hacker proof, as they are just as easily hacked and infected as PCs, except not enough people use them to make it worth while. Linux is the real answer, if you know what you're doing, Linux can run any program for windows or OSX, and you have to be knowledgable with linux, and a complete idiot all in one to be susceptible to the only virus made for Linux, not to mention, even then, viruses can't really do anything harmful to Linux based on how it is set up. You can get a virus scan for Linux, but it just a waste of space... Any virus that can affect Linux needs user permission plus a password to do anything, including be put on the system, unless the user is running as root (but who does that anyway).

I don't ever want to see Apple have a bigger market share, their computers would just become like iPods, an overly popular product that is inferior to other things on the market. There is nothing amazing about a mac, it is also not inferior either. I would rather a Zen than an iPod, hence I have a Zen, which is much more user friendly, and tend to last longer.

For me though, Win98 was the height of Windows.

lol, well it's quite funny to see, for me anyway, Microsoft going downhill because of one thing it didn't foresee, netbooks.

When I saw a netbook for the first time (when I got my current laptop) I noticed that it had Ubuntu on it, though it looked as though it COULD have had Windows installed

when I saw that netbook that day I thought "the end is nigh for windows", looks like the article linked by the OP is proving that UNLESS Microsoft do something, although the article stated that Windows 7 will run on netbooks whereas Vista doesn't I don't think MS are gonna be able to get into this market that's dominated by netbooks running Linux, though a few run Windows XP

farewell MS is all I can say right now

its called the 'profit motive', a core directive of capitalism

thx (:

Wait, how do they have revenue at all?

You mean people still buy crap from Microsoft?! Man. What a rip-off. A couple hundred bucks for an office suite, when OOo is free. Hundreds of dollars for slowpoke Vista, when Ubuntu is free and fast.

I just don't get it.

Have you used Win7? it makes Kubuntu look slow. (although Kubuntu uses considerably less ram.

Kubuntu doesn't look slow, it is slow. The KDE4 desktop is a bloated pig. GNOME is much better. Or if you really want speed, put fluxbox or something like that on any distro and watch it fly. Even Ubuntu (which is pretty bloated) running Fluxbox is sickeningly fast.

Oh, and MS Office takes well over a gig of hard drive space. I can get an operating system to fit in the space that Microsoft uses for just an office suite.

It's hard to believe but all the people (including teachers) hate on Open Office. When I told someone that I switched from MsOffice to OOo the guy said that was ret*d! I just don't get those people sometimes. Honestly I think that they just didn't like the change and hopefully by next school year no one will even care about the switch.

I get sick of having to support the rest of the world in using proprietary file formats. MS Office isn't even compatible with itself, whereas OOo will open almost any document format, and also save to any format. But it's hard when I can't get people to say which MS Office version they're using- maybe I'll save in an Office2003 format and their Office2007 won't be able to open it, or vice versa.