NetBooks: Windows 7 Vs Linux

NetBooks: Windows 7 Vs Linux

Author JoeDigital

Linux has spent the past year looking forward to dominating the mobile OS market. Conventional OS’s, such as Windows Vista, were too big and resource hungry for small NetBooks and UMPCs. But some would say that Windows 7 is being released to compete with Linux, before the battle is even well under way.

Microsoft has not made it a secret, they ar targeting portable computers for Windows 7. On the other hand, Linux hasn’t been quiet either, and has made considerable inroads into the mobile computing market. For Linux this is not a good sign. Linux developers had hoped for a few more months to build a following among tech-savvy laptop and netbok users, but the release of a beta version of Windows 7 has them concerned about the competition again.

While some of the leading makers of netbooks, including Asus and Acer, are already supplying Linux on approximately 30% of their machines, and that is a market share Microsoft wants a part of, with ts new OS.

Product Managing Director Parri Munsell, “Windows 7 has been optimized
and engineered to run on anything, from the smallest notebook to the
most loaded laptop or desktop.” This is a major step for Microsoft, that was caught almost completely off guard when netbooks and ultraminiature personal computers began to emerge as major growth areas in 2007. Vista, known for its resource greedy operation, was not an option for many users of netbooks, because ti simply wouldn’t operate as well as other OSs that have a smaller resource footprint.

Originally, Linux was the only choice for netbooks, which allowed the Linux market to take root. But recently, new competition has shown its face, first with Google’s Android OS, and now with the latest from microsoft.

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