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Old 10-01-2014, 10:26 AM   #22
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Originally Posted by rcentros View Post
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.
MS is now admitting it lost its direction with W8. It is even skipping W9 and going straight to W10 to further distance itself from that debacle.
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