Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Aug 2009 21:40 UTC
G. Pascal Zachary has written a very interesting article about the importance of Google's Chrome OS announcement, and what the move to the cloud (internet!) could mean for Microsoft and the operating system in general. I do think he missed an important part of the possible consequences of the move towards the cloud: the hardware.
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I doubt that had much to do with it. It had more to do with the cost of producing Linux netbooks. Switching to Linux meant that they had to select hardware that actually worked with Linux, not just what was the cheapest this week. They also had to educate, train and keep people with Linux support skills. Having just one support team with windows skills, was much cheaper, espesially as Microsoft sold them XP Home at a very resonable price
Most venders also made the "mistake" to sell two versions of their netbook, one with too little memory, too little disk running Linux, and one with decent hardware spec running windows. Guess what, people preferred windows versions. Especially as the Linux versions they provided forthese systems often was a bit substandard.
Even people that wanted to run Linux on their Netbook would buy the Windows version. If not for other reason that they got windows for free, in case they should be forced to use it for some reason in the future.