Bonum Certa Men Certa

Survey: Vista 7 Disliked by Sub-notebooks Buyers, GNU/Linux Emerges as a Winner

"Acer and Intel, for example, are already complaining that Windows 7 Starter Edition simply won't sell."

--Source



Summary: As expected, customers reject Vista 7 Starter Edition and Microsoft is restructuring for coming change

AS we showed earlier this month, Microsoft had been lying about the market share of GNU/Linux in sub-notebooks. Microsoft lies about a lot of things and then repeats the lies over and over again, until both customers and vendors might actually believe these lies, assuming them to be true.



According to this new survey, Microsoft is just trying to "kill" the sub-notebooks market because people who buy sub-notebooks with Vista 7 simply do not like them. Microsoft is to blame for artificial limitations.

It’s no secret the disdain Steve Ballmer and Michael Dell have publicly expressed for netbooks. Both companies make more money from bigger iron running bigger versions of Windows.

[...]

Retrevo was not surprised to discover that 61% of consumers intending to buy a netbook computer were not aware of limitations in Windows 7 Starter Edition. When Retrevo pointed out the differences 56% of those respondents said they would not be satisfied if their new netbook came with Windows 7 Starter Edition.


Another bit of coverage states that "Windows 7 Won’t Support ARM Processors Anytime Soon [Microsoft Still Plays Ball with Intel, Forgets About ARM CPUs]."

What’s interesting is that ARM processors are already used extensively in consumer electronics, and that includes PDAs, mobile phones, digital media, music players, and many more other, but still not getting any Microsoft love right now, which could be because the company is more focused on desktop computers, laptops and netbooks as their main market.


As our reader Ryan points out, "Windows 7 Starter sucks so bad that even Windows “evangelists” are running for cover."

More coverage on the subject includes sources like Jupitermedia and USA Today.

With some 1,100 consumers responding, the non-scientific survey found that 56 percent said they'd be dissatisfied if a new netbook came with Starter Edition, the lowest-end edition of the new Windows 7 operating system.


 

-- Only 42% of respondents were aware that Windows 7 Starter Edition lacks key features, such as the "Aero skin" feature that enables the user to translucently stack open programs.

-- About 54% of respondents said they would be unsatisfied with a new netbook equipped with Windows 7 Starter Edition.


Microsoft-oriented reporters (pro-Microsoft, for the sake of their careers) have covered this too, but some are attempting to spin it.

It is interesting to note that other Microsoft-oriented reporters have complaints about Microsoft, including the fact that Microsoft is shifting to countries where workers are paid less and/or work a lot more [1, 2]. For instance, while Microsoft fires massively in the US and the UK, it is still hiring more people in India. There is nothing wrong with India, there is something wrong with pay and workers' rights.

Venkatesan said the company hired a few hundred people last year in India, where it employs 5,300.


Microsoft is now restructuring and preparing itself for lower margins, which is an inevitability that a move towards cheap(er) computing will bring. ARM has sold over 10 billion processors, so Intel too is frantically working on Atom and it was caught colluding with Microsoft [1, 2], which is a criminal offence, if convicted. The next post will look more closely at Intel, whose offences do not receive sufficient attention.

Comments

Recent Techrights' Posts

Rust People: Drain the Swap, You're Holding It Wrong
Does Rust make sense?
Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, linuxconfig.org, and Plagiarised Phoronix
Many articles out there are nowadays fake
European Patent Office Illegally Gutting and Outsourcing Its Functions, Acting Like an Above-the-Law Commercial Business (It Won't Stop at Formalities Officers (FOs) and Classification Slop at the EPO)
breaking/violating laws and conventions
Links 19/09/2025: Lobbyist of American GAFAM Becomes Data Protection Commissioner in Europe
Links for the day
 
Links 20/09/2025: Internet Shutdowns, Media Censorship, and Climate Worries
Links for the day
About 700 New Gemini Capsules in 13 Months (or 54 Per Month)
4.8K would represent a 20% increase
Techrights the Name Turns 15
About 6 weeks from now we turn 19
Microsoft is Running Out of Time and Floating Fake Figures, Fake Projects, Fake Narratives, Fake Excuses
Also, a lot of Microsoft's "revenue" claims are circular financing (i.e. Microsoft buying from itself, which means Ponzi-like fraud)
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 19, 2025
IRC logs for Friday, September 19, 2025
Gemini Links 20/09/2025: Navigating the Pressures of Modern Life and SpellBinding Accidentally Wrote Another Gemini Server
Links for the day
Links 19/09/2025: Press Freedom Dying in US, Anti-Austerity Strikes in France, and Alan Rusbridger to Leave 'Prospect'
Links for the day
Offloading to the Sister Site
In the interest of not overwhelming readers
Links 19/09/2025: Coffee Club and "SpellBinding is Now Absurdly Fast"
Links for the day
Links 19/09/2025: Media Freedom Ceases to Exist in US, "Consider Dropping Twitter/X"
Links for the day
Gemini Links 19/09/2025: Thinking and Insect Bites
Links for the day
Microsoft E.E.E.: Git Will Now (or Very Soon) Fully Depend on Rust, Which is Controlled by Microsoft
Microsoft now makes Git dependent on Rust, or making Git dependent on GitHub, which is proprietary
The Right to Punch People (Apparently)
At Brett Wilson, Brett's job title is "Head of Crime" and Wilson normalises calls for violence
Slop or Fake Articles Have Turned Linux Journal From a Pioneering/Trailblazing "Linux" Magazine Into a Nuisance
some sites with former reputation - good reputation - turn into cesspools
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, September 18, 2025
IRC logs for Thursday, September 18, 2025
Brett Wilson LLP Seem to Have Had Only One Litigation Client in 2025, He Was Previously Charged, Just Like the Serial Strangler From Microsoft (Whom They Now Represent)
Karma is superstition, regulators are not
Project 2030 to Cover How "Project 2025"-Styled Anti-Media Zealots From America Targeted Techrights and Tux Machines
The common denominator is also their attacks on women
Brett Wilson LLP Failed to Meet Deadlines Set by Judge 7 Months Earlier, Tried to Ruin Our Holiday, Then Had the Audacity to Ask Us for Over 3,000 Pounds for Its Own Lateness
As a matter of principle we will never respond to assassin while we are on holiday
On Claims That After Bluewashing Red Hat Will Increasingly Become an Indian Company
Discussed this week (long and detailed)
Americans Attacking British Sites Only Months After They Leave America
We find it kind of funny if not ironic that this site, originally an American site, got legal harassment only from Americans and only months after it had moved to the UK
Despite Losing Over a Quarter Million Dollars a Year Software in the Public Interest (SPI) Gives Helping Hand to Libreboot
SPI's financial state depends a lot on its public image or its reputation
Slopwatch: Google Helps Plagiarism and Sends Traffic to Ripoff Artists
That Google as a company helps spamfarms is noteworthy
If You Want to Know the Future, Listen to the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Andy Farnell
We're sure the FSF will have plenty of its own output
Links 18/09/2025: A Taliban Ban on Internet Access and Troubled US Job Market
Links for the day
Gemini Links 18/09/2025: Computer Literacy and Accessing Alhena's Database
Links for the day
Links 18/09/2025: US War on Media (Truth Banned, Cancel Culture by the Hard Right), NYT Chief Executive Warns Cheeto is Deploying ‘Anti-press Playbook'
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, September 17, 2025
IRC logs for Wednesday, September 17, 2025