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GNU/Linux Gains Ground in Sub-notebooks Race as Vista 7 Gains Excessive Weight

Vista 7 as a pig



Summary: The recently-added weight of Vista 7 proves problematic to Microsoft, and profit margins likewise

VISTA 7, the successor and sibling of Windows Vista, is claimed to have become fat as RTM date is approached. The latest source of these claims is one who is close to Microsoft, so there is no negative bias. A colleague of his, whose disdain for GNU/Linux is well proven, thinks that this sudden 'fattening' of Vista 7 is going to boost GNU/Linux on sub-notebooks, potentially costing Microsoft a lot more in terms of lost money.



The jury is in about the performance of Windows 7 RC on netbook computers - it's as slow as a wet week. For Microsoft the "great white hope" is now Moore's Law. Will new entry level netbooks be powerful enough to prevent Redmond's second white elephant in a row?

What is becoming increasingly clear is that Windows 7 is merely an attempt at damage control after Microsoft's monumental misreading of the market with resources hungry Vista.

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The danger for Microsoft is that the challenges are coming thick and fast from all sides on the Linux front. Aside from Android and Ubuntu Remix, Intel has released its own Linux distro desgned specifically for Atom powered netbooks, Moblin 2.0.


As we showed yesterday, Intel arguably colludes with Microsoft and/or OEMs to elevate profits (price-fixing) and Microsoft's role is clear to see. One of our Spanish informants and readers wrote this morning:

Netbooks have become the main territory of Desktop GNU/Linux penetration, along with the educational environment, therefore Microsoft seems to be concentrating their anti-competitive strategy on these two areas. OEM manufacturers are kept hostages of the conditions to licence Windows, and vaporware Vista-7 is being used as threat/weapon. I think the main reason there is no actual variety in the netbook market offers is that it is Microsoft who sets the features of these machines, and not the users' demands or the manufacturers. Might be that Dell is not completely caving-in to Microsoft demands and it will get higher licence prices than its competition?


Our reader adds this as a reference, as well as this in Spanish (Google Translation into English). It smells like those fake Windows endorsements that Microsoft pays for to increase mind share.

How much does Microsoft pay ASUS for these advertisements (disguised as Windows endorsements)? It is abundantly clear that there is something rotten at ASUS [1, 2], but then again, some reporters take it out of perspective because ASUS is planning Linux phones, so it is not an abandonment. They just got "closely tied up with Microsoft" (by their own admission) and they apparently received kickbacks [1, 2]. It helps the creation of illusions.

"Mind Control: To control mental output you have to control mental input. Take control of the channels by which developers receive information, then they can only think about the things you tell them. Thus, you control mindshare!"

--Microsoft, internal document [PDF]



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