The Problem With Netbooks
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversThe market for netbooks is an artificial construct, a subset of notebooks that isn't a sustainably distinct category.
It's time somebody said this before Microsoft makes some really dumb-ass development decisions about Office 14. Earlier this week, Stephen Elop, Microsoft's Business division president, said that Office 14 would be optimized for netbooks.
Stephen made the comments during Tuesday's Morgan Stanley Technology Conference. Office 14 could ship as early as 2010. He told attendees:
We have some very specific opportunities we believe with Wave 14 of Office to do even better in terms of netbook attach and the overall economic model for that platform. So there are new ways of packaging, and monetizing SKUs, again, without saying too much, that are unique and new opportunities in the netbook marketplace that we believe we'll be able to capture with Wave 14. So we're excited about what we can do there as we go forward.
I predict that netbooks either won't exist as a separate notebook category by the time the productivity suite ships or they will become something different really incapable of running Office 14. Surely that prediction will strike some people as nutty. After all, Gartner forecasts that laptop shipments will rise 2.7 percent year over year in 2009. Growth jumps to 9 percent when adding in netbooks, which Gartner refers to as mininotebooks.
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Comments(5)
"btw luv the biometric options in w7 you the silly nurdy stuff with finger print scan
can you add smth to scan genytails to in rtm you now the seksxual organ thing ect you now
what i mean"
is it me or is anyone else having problems actually deciphering the 1st
comment?!?!
that's just one of obamas minions drooling on his keyboard.
with windows 7 on the horizon, after a test run of the beta, i have decided (and have
already switched to) using linux for my primary desktop/notebook os (believe me when it
comes to getting work done its far more capable and faster than using ms windows). my
reason for this is the fact that i have thousands of dollars of windows xp/vista software
and must of it will not work on windows 7, since there are only some special packages that
i don't have equals for on linux i will keep an off-line win zp system, but my day-to-day
work only requiress internet access, a text editor, and various compilers and interpreters
which is more efficient on a linux box!
i really dont understand why some people try to get everyone to adopt their culture. the
3 main oses i know, linux, mac and windows cater for 3 very different kind of users:
people with binary watches, show-offs, computer literate (and short on cash). whatever
category you are in, thats ok, just restrain from trying to get other to follow you.
boy, it sure would be terrible to have an office suite that is optimized to provide a
great experience on less powerful hardware - we should tell ms to stop that immediately or
they might do the same with win7...uh ohh...too late.
flimflamman - face it,
the idiots aren't in charge anymore - get over yourself and get used to having a
principled, intelligent commander in chief...
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Huh?!?
By Big Daddy on 06.03.2009 - 20:03