Windows Vista is Crawling the Netbooks Market

In the early release and rise to popularity of Netbooks, linux seem to have found a niche market; but Microsoft came back powering and crawling its way to the Netbooks market. The release of HPs mini-note 2133, Lenovo's S10, Asus Eee PC 1000 have seen Windows Vista taking on this market as well. Microsoft is not going to let Linux rule this space any longer and they made sure that newer versions of Netbooks are capable of running Windows Vista.

Microsoft also hinted that Windows 7 is going to find it's way to netbooks. Even ASUS CEO Jerry Shen has announced that Windows 7 is going to run on their next version of Eee PC by the second half of next year.

It is good to know that Microsoft is taking steps to ensure that netbooks are going to explode with their products.

This week during the WinHEC, it is expected that Windows Cloud or Windows Strata is going to be announced by Microsoft and how it plays with netbooks is going to be an interesting topic to watch.

1. Microsoft Sales Decline Because of Netbooks | Technology Articles: SharePoint, Vista & Microsoft, October 26, 2008 at 7:23 pm

   [...] I am reading this article from InformationWeek reporting that the sales of Windows Vista just grew by 2% while the PC market grew by 10-12% and given that Microsoft’s dominance mean they should be getting a 6%-8% growth rate instead of the 2% change is reason enough to expect big things to come from Windows 7, Windows Cloud and Windows Strata as I have written—Windows Vista is Crawling the Netbooks Market. [...]

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