Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 31st May 2009 10:44 UTC
Back when the whole netbook thing started, Asus was king of the hill with a focus on netbooks with Linux pre-installed. Since they were kind of popular, it didn't take Microsoft long to start working together with Asus to 'port' Windows XP to the Asus line of netbooks, and with that, to other netbooks as well. The result was that Linux netbooks are now harder to find for many people. While Dell committed itself to Linux on netbooks, Asus has decided to just skip the first date and jump right into bed with Microsoft.
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2006-01-27
Hoax or not, the title of the OSNews article is a crock. "Asus-Microsoft Launch Anti-Linux Netbook Campaign." Yeah, right. None of the voiceless commercials in the series even mentioned Linux, nor did they compare Windows XP to any other operating system, not even in an unnamed vague fashion.
XP does work on the Asus Eeepc, and works very well. It's entirely reasonable that Microsoft would highlight this fact in advertisements. And if Microsoft produced an advertising campaign for their OS running on an Asus computer, wouldn't it be perfectly reasonable for Asus to link to the ads from their own website?
The real question, why isn't anyone producing similar ads highlighting the functionality of Linux in the same way?