Microsoft Boasts 96% Netbook Penetration 774
An anonymous reader writes "Citing figures from market research firm NPD, Microsoft says Windows' share of the US netbook market has ballooned from less than 10% in the first half of 2008 to 96% as of February. 'The growth of Windows on netbook PCs over the last year has been phenomenal,' wrote Brandon LeBlanc, Microsoft's in-house Windows blogger, in a post Friday. Information Week author Paul McDougall notes Microsoft's 8% decline in Windows sales is due to netbooks sporting Linux. How does Redmond make an 80% gain in netbook market share without the sales numbers reflecting that gain?"
Steve Ballmer Says (Score:5, Funny)
96% percent penetration eh? (Score:5, Funny)
Way to go Netbook! Getting to home base 96% of the time would make any frat boy proud.
Re:Honeymoon is over (Score:5, Funny)
Is there any other way to call it? 'Race to the bottom' sounds so crass. Perhaps 'delivering better customer value by focusing on essential factors while reducing extraneous costs?' I raced to the bottom once and I found really weird stuff there...
Re:Honeymoon is over (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, it's an acronym. ;-)
Re:Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics (Score:3, Funny)
"I wonder if they count my shiny new Acer Aspire One"
And, BTW, it's not personal. Their bonuses depend on it.
Re:Steve Ballmer Says (Score:5, Funny)
Very easy with a tiny bit of perl (microsoft use perl, right?)
$spc="<a href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/5105!!!"
$spc=~s/[^0-9]//go;
print "Sales increase: $spc%\n:wq";
Puts netbook sales increase at 5101%, and as overall netbook sales have increased by 6375% (a well known figure), that places MS's new market share at 80%. QED.
Re:Steve Ballmer Says (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Honeymoon is over (Score:5, Funny)
I think his're point was actually a joke.
96% penetration? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Honeymoon is over (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics (Score:5, Funny)
Re: epic failures (Score:5, Funny)
No, we'll always have PA-RISC.
Re:Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics (Score:5, Funny)
most of my friends that got netbooks with linux installed windows on them
Sounds like you need new friends
Re:Honeymoon is over (Score:5, Funny)
You live in the whole USA?!
Re:Steve Ballmer Says (Score:5, Funny)
I can't believe I missed a semicolon... I'll create a git tree for it, then if anyone wants to contribute...?
In A Related Story... (Score:3, Funny)
everyone knows ... (Score:2, Funny)
That windows won this battle because linux doesn't have enough critics.
Re:Honeymoon is over (Score:2, Funny)
He accidentally the USA.
Re:Steve Ballmer Says (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics (Score:5, Funny)
Clearly all computers sold with linux should include the price of a windows license to combat piracy.
Re:Honeymoon is over (Score:1, Funny)
Here's your ARM powered netbook: :p
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMate_300 [wikipedia.org]
Re:Steve Ballmer Says (Score:5, Funny)
"Neeearly... it's at 96%"
Re:Where can I buy a Linux netbook? (Score:3, Funny)
Out of their free will, no doubt...
Nah, it's out of the kindness of their hearts ... they're kind of scared of Microsoft.
Re:Steve Ballmer Says (Score:5, Funny)
I'll create a git tree for it, then if anyone wants to contribute...?
Sure, first thing I'll do is a GPLv3 fork. Just in case, you know... patents...
Re:Honeymoon is over (Score:2, Funny)
Not around here! XP netbooks in Europe are less than 40% of the Linux netbook market...
Re:Not surprising (Score:1, Funny)
my 2 year old laptop was an Acer Aspire 5672 wmli - not even remotely underpowered.
I bought a $420 14" laptop (after taxes) from dell a year ago (vostro 1400) with a single core yonah chip, 2gb of ram, 160gb hdd, and 32 mb onboard video. It was probably 3-4 times faster than any netbook at least.
There is just no reason to use netbooks unless you really really need the portability.
Re:Windows == not a netbook (Score:3, Funny)
Congratulations sir, you've successfully applied the problem-solving techniques pioneered by the Bush administration!
1) Problem : 96% of netbooks run Windows
2) Solution : Redefine "netbook" to exclude anything that runs Windows
3) Problem solved : 0% of netbooks run Windows!!!
Re: epic failures (Score:3, Funny)
Everybody knows they run AIX.
Re:Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Honeymoon is over (Score:3, Funny)
Stay away from that -1%. They're not your friends.
Re:Steve Ballmer Says (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Honeymoon is over (Score:3, Funny)
That was 6 months ago, and she is really happy with it and hasn't had to come back for help
This is called 'winning the battle but losing the war'.
I bought a netbook for my wife (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Steve Ballmer Says (Score:3, Funny)
stop using facts dammit!!!!!
The miracle of the free market (Score:2, Funny)