Microsoft and ASUS in May 2009 launched a website to promote Windows on the ASUS EeePC. Traditionally, ASUS has installed their own customized Linux distribution on these machines. ASUS didn’t do a very good job with that distribution, and thus customers believed the machines didn’t work very well. Some of them installed Windows on these machines, adding nearly one third of the purchase price on top of what the hardware costs. Windows did not run very well either.
Then Microsoft entered negotiations with manufacturers of netbooks like the ASUS EeePC. They demanded that netbooks shall never exceed a certain amount of power. They must remain slow little things, and if manufacturers agree, they would be able to buy Windows licenses from Microsoft at lower prices. Needless to say, manufacturers shifted and are now shipping (a butchered version?) of Windows XP on these machines. It was all a great big tactical move for manufacturers to force Microsoft to lower the price on Windows XP licenses — or that is my opinion. They were never interested in doing a good job with Linux.
Now Microsoft and ASUS launched a very misleading website that basically says that the software ASUS themselves shipped with the EeePC is crap, and that people should install Windows on their netbooks. This is very sleazy.
Read the rest here.
Not that I had any respect for ASUS or Micro$oft in the first place but I know that you love them both such sheep that you are. Begone pests.
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