50 percent share for Linux Netbooks?
May 27, 2009 by Milo Riano
Filed under Computers
Stephen Lim, general manager of Linpus Technologies, predicts a 50% share for netbooks by next year. Stephan Lim, that is not going to happen.
Linux had it’s chance when Asus launched it’s netbook. Industry experts content that Linux is making a big push on the netbooks market as the operating system requires less hardware processing power, perfect for netbooks. Linux did not fail, but Microsoft simply extended Windows XP life on netbooks and the tables quickly turned. Linux was left in the dust, a place they long occupied.
Stephen is a dreamer, and his dreams of Linux penetrating 50% of the market would remain a fantasy. The release of Windows 7 and it’s capacity to run on netbooks would simply continue the surge of netbooks together with the software giant.
You can read the article here — Linux netbooks expected to reach 50% market share.
Image from Lenovo products.
