The magic formula of Linux plus netbook didn’t stick. Within months of the original Eee there were Windows XP variants to be found. Before twelve months had passed MSI’s director of US sales Andy Tung ...

Possibly Microsoft‘s most important strategic goal for Windows 7, in addition to redeeming the brand damage done by Windows Vista, is to dominate netbooks, now the fastest selling segment of the PC ...

Recently, fellow Computerworld blogger, Preston Gralla wrote about a Lenovo analyst who felt that Windows 7 will dominate netbooks, and Linux will fade away. Of course, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols ...

The netbook revolution is upon us. Less than a year ago, the cheap, Atom-powered mini-laptops were a novelty. Now they are shaking up the regular laptop industry. Netbooks are and , thanks in large ...

Windows’ dominance extends to 96% of netbooks sold in the U.S. in February. Worldwide, three-quarters of the 15 million netbooks sold in 2008 came with Windows. But Linux, which now accounts for the ...

Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition marks a major sea change in the usefulness of the free Linux operating system on small notebooks and touch-screen PCs. The concept needs some refinement, but this could be ...

Early netbooks ran Linux, which plays well in emerging markets but failed to strike a real chord with consumers here in the U.S. In fact, people who returned some of these first-gen netbooks told me ...

Instead, consumers will only be able to buy a designer edition of the HP mini 1000 laptop running Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system when the computer goes on sale later this month. The HP Compaq ...

Microsoft has a competitor to Windows in the netbook market that's not called Linux. It's -- guess who? -- Google, with the Android operating system, which will soon run on some Acer netbooks and ...

A new Linux netbook based on Moblin will be introduced this week, and it may represent a new way that the Linux community is approaching the mass market. Leaders at the first Linuxcon Conference in ...