Crazy Talk: Why Small Laptops Are Going to Save Windows XP

Windows Vista has n’t been adopted joyfully by the people , but consumer do n’t always have a say when it comes to the next Windows OS they ’ll be using . Most of us have to run whatever comes preinstalled on our political machine of option . And grant to Microsoft , set out June 30th of this year , that OS will be Windows Vista only .

There is an exclusion : A sheet - tatter group of small , cheap rebels that are exploding in popularity . Netbooks , mini - notebook , ultraportables - whatever you want to call them - are bend the rules and reigniting Windows XP as a maker - supported OS .

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How Can They Get off With It ?

You see , Microsoft has a article in their Vista - only mandate . Knowing — and now openly admit — that the OS is far more taxing on a system than XP , Microsoft has agreed to allow makers of “ ultralow - cost PCs ” to remain sell XP computers until 2010 . And while Microsoft will only offer major support for the platform through 2009 , modified financial backing will be available for XP until 2014 . Essentially , it ’s a loopholethat Microsoft created for an entire new class of computers like theAsus EeePC .

Will This Really Matter ?

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The Asus Eee was a hit , already moving over 1 million unit . And since then , unnumbered other like “ ultralow - price PC ” have been announced for the market place by major manufacturers . in the first place for the Eee personal computer ( and others like OLPC ’s XO laptop ) a Linux OS do . But consumer requirement for a more familiar operating organisation led to the adoption of XP . Now , most of these mini - notebook offer an XP choice in good order out of the logic gate , at an tally toll .

Aside from the many small to medium manufacturers , the two grownup PC manufacturers , Dell and HP , have both jumped onto the mini laptop bandwagon . Here ’s where it come interesting : HP ’s Mini Note does not plump for XP gadget driver natively , only Vista and Linux , and we do n’t know what OSs Dell will offer . But HP ’s system sure qualifies for the immunity category because of its Via chipset , and Dell ’s very well might , too . If mini - notebook computer continue to deal at the rate they ’re being produced , these big companies will definitely play a factor as to whether or not it ’s XP or Vista that ’s on them .

Still , the parvenu have the impulse . XP - loving Asus expects to sell 10 million Eees in 2009 when the mini - notebook securities industry is forestall to gain 20 - 30 million units sell , sound out Reuters . That ’s a lot of computers quick for XP .

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So What ’s The grab ?

Microsoft was cunning . After harbinger its intent to support mini - notebooks , it clarified ( read : circumscribed ) the glasses on “ ultralow - cost PCs . ” requirement include nothing bigger than a 10 - inch screen ( not a job ) , bound on mainframe fastness ( variable by make / model ) , a cap at 1 GB of RAM and a limit on warehousing . So far , the RAM and memory board formula have both been broken by Asus already . And it ’s belike only a issue of time before Atom processors top their current ( release ) speeds of 1.6Ghz and create yet another exception to Microsoft ’s rulebook .

It will be interesting how XP popularity plays out from here - a plot that ’s pretty much controlled by Microsoft at this level . But Microsoft is certainly allowing companies manipulate the rules meter and clip again , in all likelihood because in the eyes of Ballmer and Gates , it for certain beats some cat run Linux .

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