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Linux's share of netbooks surging, not sagging, says analyst
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Linux's share of netbooks surging, not sagging, says analyst

Research firm's numbers contradict lower figures touted by Microsoft on Linux netbooks

By Eric Lai

Computerworld - Reports that the Linux netbook is dead or dying are incorrect, at least globally, according to an analyst firm.

Nearly one-third of the 35 million netbooks on track to ship this year will come with some variant of the free, open-source operating system, ABI Research said. The exact split is 32% Linux versus 68% Windows, said Jeff Orr, an analyst at ABI, which works out to about 11 million Linux netbooks this year.

"Just because you live in the United States, don't assume that everything is on Windows," Orr said.

Orr said Ubuntu is a popular choice on netbooks, though he declined to confirm that with any hard statistics.

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    • macbraughton macbraughton
      3 weeks ago


      Wow, not everybody in the world lives in the U.S. and is tied to MS Windows OS? Could this actually affect the adoption of low cost, low power computers being sold in countries where people don't have the same kind of disposable income as they do in N. America?

      If MS is starting to believe its own propaganda than they are in a lot worse position than anybody can imagine. The Wintel cartel is loosing its grip.
      Ubuntu Linux, Smartbooks!
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