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

[Nathan C. Smith]

I see they have netbooks for sale at Toys-R-Us now.  Seeing them there was kind of surreal. 

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> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Dave Weis
> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 10:30 AM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Fwd: News Alert: Google Plans to 
> Introduce a PC Operating System
> 
> 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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