Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
All of that business about Microsoft releasing cut down, crippled
versions of Windows 7 for small netbooks was rubbish, spin.
Artificial
limitations on the numbers of applications that be opened at once and
the size of netbook displays was a bunch of baloney. The operating
system is what it is - it has a footprint and minimum specs and that's
what they are whether you cripple it or not.
The fact of the
matter is that Microsoft has been watching very closely what's
happening in the netbook space and it's seeing the rapid rise in
netbook specs.
The mid-range netbooks have advanced to the point
where their processors, memory and storage capabilities can just about
handle the demands of Windows 7 - just about but not quite.
What
Microsoft is hoping is that even the new spate of small netbooks will
come up to the hardware performance requirements necessary to run
Windows 7. The price of SSD is dropping as will the price of Atom
processors. Meanwhile it's holding the market at bay with XP.
Recent
figures on netbook sales from NPD showed that Microsoft had a
resounding 96% marketshare of retail over the counter sales in February
so the strategy appears to be working so far.
The danger for
Microsoft is that the challenges are coming thick and fast from all
sides on the Linux front. Aside from Android and Ubuntu Remix, Intel
has released its own Linux distro desgned specifically for Atom powered
netbooks, Moblin 2.0.
For now, Microsoft looks to have stayed
the Linux threat on netbooks. However, it has only been able to do that
by practically giving away Windows XP.
The big question which
has already been asked is will the market buy into paying more for
netbooks capable of running Windows 7? Given that people are buying
netbooks these days usually because they want a cheap and very portable
computer, Microsoft is not likely to like the answer to that question.
David Bass
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