Netbook: Android led the charge of “Os” anti Windows
ByBoth PCs have grown bonsai by popularity and sales volumes, so Windows has gradually stolen from the Linux operating system role of reference in the industry more healthy whole computer industry.
At a distance of two years from their debut as the devices – based on open source platform – dedicated to a restricted group of users (students in particular), the netbook is now a reality very important market and are often a real alternative to the traditional mobile . Microsoft’s software, to be second choice, it soon became the first and is currently installed in about 80% of mini computers in use, relegating Linux (in its various versions, Ubuntu, the most popular) in the remaining 20% .
For Windows (XP today, tomorrow Seven) has planned a new market dominated unchallenged? Microsoft, on hearing the recent statements about his leadership, seems to have every intention of not losing a strategic supremacy in many ways – and confirmation of an ad hoc version of Windows 7 (the Starter Edition) for netbook goes in this direction – but the horizon are entering at least a couple of formidable competitors.
One of these could be Apple, which is much talk of his mini Tablet “multitouch”. The netbook (with 10-inch screen) is expected to Apple’s official debut in June and carries a lot of rumors as always will be a version of the iPhone oversized? Offer the services dell’AppStore? It will cost twice as much current PCs bonsai market?
Waiting for answers, some sites specialize Americans (in this case, Gizmodo), appeared hypothesis also suggestive of a possible use of Mac OS X – in its new version of Snow Leopard – on mini-computers of other vendors (there are the names of Dell and Lenovo). More serious considerations have emerged about the possible impacts that would have a “netbook” Apple of the market economy: how could chew on to Windows in terms of market share, the tablet of Apple if this would cost “only” 150/200 dollars most of the models based on software from Microsoft.
Android Linux back in vogue?
Many more ambitions in the battle between OS for PC bonsai, seems to have really the open source platform Google in this venture also backed by Intel (which depopulated in this field with its Atom processor). Talking androids of netbooks for a while ‘and the descent of the giant field in Mountain View promises sparks, if only because it would be another chapter in the global battle against Microsoft.
The potential of Android in countering the hegemony of Windows are several betting leveraging on several factors. The platform has already been successfully tested on various models of mini computers (an Asus Eee Pc among them) and some manufacturers (even Asus) would be working in the development of dedicated products. If one or more large vendors, this theory, should provide users with a hardware stand properly and use the fact that Google does not pay their licenses to keep prices end content, the Windows domain would start to falter.
It could stand to Linux platform of choice for millions and millions of consumers. The netbook Android would then the fortunes of various Asus, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and so forth and presented themselves as an alternative to “luxury” to those equipped with Windows, which Microsoft seems to ask (OEMs) a fee of about $ 60 per every copy of XP sold under license. A not insignificant figure for a product that costs around 400 and that in times of crisis can only be increasingly attractive precisely because they are “low cost”.
Assuming that Microsoft, in devoting a version of Windows 7 (together with perhaps a release of Office 14 Web-based) to the netbook, I certainly do not give up on its edge, how to react to stress Android manufacturers? And users, betting more on the “comfort” of a Windows computer or on the flexibility of an affordable unit open source? Two, maximum three years, we’ll know.
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