[Nottingham] Microsoft gains 96% Netbook market share from near zero in just 6 months!

[Simon Osborne]

2009/4/9 Roger Light <roger at atchoo.org>:
> Hi,
>
>> Microsoft Boasts 96% Netbook Penetration
>> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/06/2228220&from=rss
>>
>> Microsoft: 96% Of Netbooks Run Windows
>>
>> Gains in PC market's hottest category come at the expense of Linux,
>> Redmond says.
>
> Well I guess that if you start out with a small market and ensure
> that the majority of the models on sale come with Windows, it's
> probably not that hard to get to 96% market share.
>
> On a slightly different note, have you seen that the newer EEEs that
> have flash drives come with a certain amount of "EEE storage", which
> is an online backup. The EEE 1000 comes with 60GB. Having just
> checked, it's only free for the first 18 months (with a possible 6
> month extension) and I can't see what happens after then, but it's
> still an interesting idea.
>

Sod that. I'll rather use iFolder which is completely free.

Simon