"If you had added that in order to keep Linux at 10% Microsoft
was practically giving its Windows XP away, hoping only for
upgrades that will likely never happen, I would say you had too
much penguin juice.
"Yet that's the news which is now being spun as a Linux defeat.
After a year spent putting atrocious Linux distros on their $400
hardware, Taiwanese OEMs have now settled on Windows XP for netbook
shipments, an operating system Microsoft was calling obsolete in
2007."