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:2008: The Year That MS Loses the Notebook Wars?
2008: The Year That MS Loses the Notebook Wars?
Dec 28, 2007, 18 :15 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (7908 reads)

(Other stories by Ross Brunson)

[ Thanks to Ross Brunson for this link. ]

"Face it, now that the dam has broken with the OLPC, the EEE PC and now the prospect of Everex's Cloudbook coming out in January at CES, Microsoft is really feeling the heat from Linux in this market. It also doesn't help that people have to Microsoft's UMPC hardware offering with either loathing, disbelief ($1100 for THAT?!) or just plain ignored it.

"I've probably had most of the subnotebooks that have come out, and for someone who's fingertips are about the size of 4+ Blackberry keyboard keys, I shouldn't love this form factor, but somehow the convenience and just plain handiness of this genre has fascinated me for decades..."

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Now that ASUS has made a huge impact wit ...   No space for the microsoft tax?   
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Dec 28, 2007, 20:34:41
 
Well I hope so, but you know MS will wan ...   I hope so...   
Alan
Dec 28, 2007, 21:42:30
 
> Now that ASUS has made a huge impact w ...   Re: No space for the microsoft tax?   
James E LaBarre
Dec 29, 2007, 04:02:07
 
I found a webshop that offered Compal la ...   Successful tax evasion   
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