[Cialug] Fwd: News Alert: Google Plans to Introduce a PC Operating System

[Dave Weis]

Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:13 AM, David Champion<dave at dchamp.net> wrote:
>> That's pretty much already happened. I saw an article last week, saying
>> that the only place you can get Linux on a Netbook from a US retailer
>> was at Toys R Us, and that was for a limited amount of clearance models.
>> All new models ship XP on them in the US.
> 
> Retail storefronts pretty much all sell Windows netbooks. This is
> because Linux on netbooks is as much a threat to the Best Buy as it is
> to Microsoft (because BB makes their money on add-ons).

Linux-based netbooks are also a threat to the support department because 
the purchasers don't realize it won't run any of the software they have 
or are familiar with.



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