Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 12th May 2008 17:40 UTC
Last week, we reported on a peculiar price difference in Australia between the Linux and Windows versions of the Asus Eee PC 900, the new model in the Eee line. The Windows model was 50 USD cheaper than the Linux model - the Linux model did have a bigger hard drive, but interestingly, the version with the smaller hard drive was not available as a Linux machine. This gave rise to speculation that Microsoft had been putting pressure on Asus to favour Windows XP over Linux. It appears Microsoft's assault in this segment of the market goes deeper than just Asus and the Eee alone.
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2005-08-15
linux won't behave exactly the same as MS, because there is competition in the linux world. if Linux had 90% market share, it would be devided between suse, fedora, red hat, xandros, debian, ubuntu, linspire... Between commercial and non commercial distributions, so if one company would behave the same as MS does now, the manufacturer would just take another linux flavor.
For MS it's easy to ask such prices, everything they get for XP now is some extra money, of course they would prefer more vista pc's, but well that one won't work decently on those machines so they are forced to sell an almost eight year old (matured though) OS. Nice thinking, and in the end it's a win for Linux, MS is forced to lower the price, or they get a competitor on the desktop market, and now no one would want that, would we... euhu :|