Did Microsoft force Asus to axe Linux? Jul 9, 2009, 12 :33 UTC (2 Talkback[s]) (6068 reads) (Other stories by Victor Keegan)
"The problem was that Asus had not only adopted Windows and jettisoned Linux (which I knew), but the computer didn't even come with the free services that came with the $199 model. I know there are millions who love Windows. That is their human right. But it fails completely - for me - on usability. So, the Seashell ends up not as a next-generation netbook, but as a Microsoft-occupied computer and all the simplicity of the earlier Asus machines has gone out of the Windows. Every time I open it, I am assailed with stuff I don't want - Windows Live this, Norton that, Phishing this, Works that - with no obvious way of switching some of them off."
