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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RE[2]: Linux has the advantage - leak, rather
by jabbotts on Tue 13th May 2008 18:43
in reply to "RE: Linux has the advantage, it just needs to build on "
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I think it was leaked documents provided by some nameless vendor too the news agency rather than an MS anouncement; I suspect, MS was hoping that the letter to it's "partners" would remain between the two respectively. Luckily, human decency prevailed and those documents slipped out a door somewhere.
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Ubuntu and Intel already have a cooperation agreement to work on this. Microsoft has just cut themselves out of this market with there hardware limitation announcement.