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.
But the netbook market has revolutionised the sub-notebook space, bringing their price down dramatically from the $3000-$4000 price points of the past to the $300-$700 price points of today.
Yes, expensive subnotebooks are still available, but if you’re just doing basic office work, wordprocessing, email and web surfing, why spend $3000+?
This is also the argument for Linux – why spend money on a copy of Windows, even if it only costs a few dollars, when Linux is free?
These are but two trends that Microsoft is facing and fighting, and given that Microsoft has the hardware and software support momentum on its side, there’s no way it wants to give any of that up.
So, we can expect to hear a lot more about Windows 7 being specifically tweaked for netbooks, and likely even the emergence of a dedicated Windows 7 netbook edition, just as Ubuntu has been working hard on its Ubuntu Netbook Remix edition - although based on current performance, every copy of Windows 7 is already a netbook edition!
Whichever way you look at it, Windows 7 is breathing much needed life back into Microsoft’s OS fortunes and will make it a formidable competitor to Mac OS X, Ubuntu Linux and other Linux distros.
If Microsoft is going to reach its unofficial mid-2009 launch date, something that will perfectly position it for the 2009 end-of-year holiday season (which could be very important in a world of “economic crisis’), Microsoft must squeeze every ounce of power and performance out of Windows 7 no matter the platform it is running on.
So far, Windows 7 is looking very, very good and it’s easy to be confident that Microsoft has what it takes to deliver Windows 7 heaven.
David Bass
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