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Originally Posted by frahse
Microsoft is trying to head off Chromebook at the pass like they did the Netbook. They sold the Home XP license to the Netbook people for $5 to $10 so they wouldn't just only provide Linux (alone.)
Like was mentioned above the Chrome OS has some advantages over Windows, as well as disadvantages which Google is working on.
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Yep, that's what they're trying. But there are big differences this time -- the biggest being that Google is a huge corporation with a lot of momentum, and not several laptop vendors who, in addition to marketing Linux netbooks, also had to keep Microsoft happy so they could continue getting favorable licensing terms for the Windows OS. And M$ charged these vendors a Windows license fee for every Linux netbook because (they said) Windows would be loaded on to them.
And there's also the fact that Microsoft's netbook killers ran Windows XP, a popular OS. The modern ChromeBook "killers" are running Windows 8.1, an unpopular OS.