Re: Microsoft to limit capabilities of cheap laptops -- PCTECH

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Subject: Re: Microsoft to limit capabilities of cheap laptops
From: Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 13:18:10 -0500
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Nathan Andelin wrote:

I don't know if there's any legal remedy to stop Microsoft from extending their monopoly. Microsoft killed Netscape by embedding their browser in Windows. But as a consumer, I plan on going with Linux when I get a low-cost laptop.

I'm already using Linux with my Asus EEE PC and I'm thrilled with it. I'll let you know more after I come back from my first road trip. But I do look forward to not lugging the laptop as well as its assorted peripherals. Everything for the EEE fits in a soft case about the size of a hardback book - okay, it's perhaps the size of a Harry Potter book, but it's lighter <grin>.

Joe

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