Death of the Linux desktops
An apocalyptic take on the OS of the future
There is sad news from the USA: 95% of netbooks (i.e. the likes of the Asus EeePC, the Dell Mini etc) are being now supplied with Windows XP rather than Linux pre-installed. Why? Cos' the Americans don't like Linux; the number of returns spoke for itself, they hated Linux...or maybe just the variants they were exposed to... so, like the venerable Terminator itself, XP is back*.
Only 12 months ago the majority of netbooks were sporting 'snazzy' Linux OSes and enjoying their price advantage. Better still, Windows Vista simply did not work on anything other than supercomputers and Microsoft had officially deprecated XP, hoping to force punters into upgrading to the most unpopular OS of all time.
