The Taiwanese company Asus, creator of the now very famous EEEPC, which redefined the terms of the market for creating portable NETBOOK category has teamed with Microsoft to launch a website called “It’s better with Windows”. The idea is to promote the use of Windows among users of the family of netbooks EEEPC. Microsoft argued in its favor to work with Windows prevents hardware incompatibility issues, but we must remember that Linux has been used by Asus customized for their particular model and has no problem of incompatibility with the hardware. Additionally, if the argument that Linux netbooks are returned more than Windows, at this stage and all the netbooks on the market should be using Windows XP, so you are looking for Microsoft with this type of campaign.
There is definitely some concern in Redmond for its vulnerable position in the field of netbooks, where 7 or Windows XP does not seem a match for the new systems such as Ubuntu Remix, Moblin or Android that offer a much higher performance due to its radical approach to the hardware of the netbooks. Anyway we will see next year that Windows has behaved in the field of NETBOOK inexpensive (under $ 300). Recall that in this summer to enter the netbooks market with Freescale processors i.MX515 $ 200.