Microsoft’s bottom line is certainly hurting from the Linux gains in most of the netbooks that have been manufactured recently. There is a recent drop in the windows revenue and popularity due to the fact that most of the leading netbook vendors like the Acer and Asus simply prefer to run their netbooks on the Linux OS. This has certainly increased the popularity of Linux by nearly 30 percent as compared to windows in the recent times.
In the last quarter’s it is expected that the Windows sales simply fell far behind short of forecasts, and Microsoft has certainly curtailed growth projections in most of its graphs for the current year to over more than nine percent to as little as three percent, simply citing lower revenue from most of their leading netbooks. Most of the Window products certainly do run in about 70 percent of the netbooks, that simply is a category that is never defined, but it certainly does reflect an %600 mini-notebook with all of its screens ranging from 7 to 11 inches.
Acer and Asys executives simply make a note that Linux runs on about third of their netbooks. This certainly can be very much significant as when we speak of the present market condition, it is pretty obvious that both these two companies simply control over 90 percent of the netbook market. We certainly know that acer is just credited with the touching of the netbook explosion with the launch of its new Eee-PC in the market( a system that certainly does run on the Linux OS). It was definitely shipped as a Linus run system for an estimated $400 . Most of the latest versions of the new Acer netbooks certainly are powered with the new ATOM processor and another fact is that a majority of the netbooks have the choice to run from the Linux or Windows XP OS.
If we speak of more accurate figures then we certainly can say that the figures are just meant to dwarfs Linux’s share in the higher end PC system market at around 0.71 percent from 0.47 percent in Aug. 07.
So, most of the IDC analysts also make a statement that the netbooks certainly are a threat to Microsoft as it certainly does give most of the users a chance so that they can certainly try out something new as an alternative. A number of people have been using Windows XP for a long time, so they may just decide to use the New improved version of Linux OS for their netbooks as most of these netbooks have an option for running on both types of Operating system.
One day most probably most of the people may just find themselves using the new improved Linux OS. People have been saying that for over a decade. The mere ideal of a free universal OS that is supported by the Open source applications so that it can in fact take care of all the business and entertainment needs of most of the users. Most of the people do complaint about the Windows and its producers, Linux is at least expected to hit the inroads amongst most of the PC users.
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