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How does this hurt Microsoft? If everyone is tossing their netbook every 6 months, doesn't Microsoft get them to pay the Windows licensing fee more frequently?
by lake_rogue 14y ago
How does this hurt Microsoft? If everyone is tossing their netbook every 6 months, doesn't Microsoft get them to pay the Windows licensing fee more frequently?
- wazoox 14y agoOf course I can't draw definitive conclusion from a couple of cases, but the 3 linux netbooks I've bought in 2007/2008 are still in use. And AFAIK my mother's 2008 aspire one only recently failed afer 4 years of heavy use.
- freehunter 14y agoMy mom bought one for my sister this summer before her first year at university. An EeePC 10" something or other. I'm still using my 3-year-old Lenovo netbook as an Arduino programming machine because it's so portable and runs Linux.