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Re: Flames, Figures and FUD: What's the Score in the Netbook Arena?
Posted by: Katherine Noyes 2009-04-13 10:46:10
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Visitors to the Linux blogosphere over the past few days may have emerged with singed hair and scorch marks, because a raging firestorm left few forums unscathed. It all began when Brandon LeBlanc of the Windows Team Blog posted a review of Windows on netbooks over the past year. His incendiary conclusions? First, he asserted that Windows had achieved a 96 percent share of the netbook market as of February; then, as if that wasn't enough, he went on to say that return rates on Linux netbooks are four times higher than for Windows machines.
Article is on target, as far as I can tell. And, red flares should be shooting up, for those who understand the statistics. Microsoft becomes more and more irrelevant, world wide. But, American consumers and businesses remain dependant on Microsoft. One might conclude that America is in danger of becoming irrelevant in computer sciences. I see this in my own house. The youngest son is a convert to unix-like operating systems, and he actually understands computing. The other two sons don't understand *nix, and they are stuck using expensive MS operating systems, as well as software dependant on MS. Not to mention, they are dependant on ineffective "security" software and fixes. We ARE being left behind, sadly.
