Post by graybeard on Feb 19, 2009 8:59:27 GMT -6
I've been somewhat in the market for a new 15" laptop for several months now. All I've found online or in stores has that awful Vista, or for double the money, Vista with XP replicator. I've been using XP since it was new, and mostly satisfied with it.
On top of that, I paid full price for Office 2007, and it's a pos. I got a copy of Office 2003 from a family member, and got back all that was familiar over a dozen years of using prior versions of Office.
It would be nice to have Linux, I guess, but I know nothing about it. Maybe that's about to change:
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Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc.’s Android operating system, after making inroads into the mobile-phone market, may be running on portable computers within the next year, challenging the dominance of Microsoft Corp.
Google, which owns the most popular Internet search engine, could use its brand name and community of developers to get the software onto low-cost notebooks, said Ray Valdes, an analyst at Gartner Inc. One chipmaker, Freescale Semiconductor Inc., is already working on designs for an Android computer.
“Android could be a piece of a larger competitive battle between Google and Microsoft,” Valdes said. The San Jose, California-based analyst expects some kind of personal-computer device to use Android in the next 12 to 18 months.
Google is stepping up competition with Microsoft in areas outside of Internet searches, where it commands more than 60 percent of the U.S. market. While Android already battles Microsoft in software for mobile phones, moving into PCs would encroach onto its rival’s home turf. Microsoft has more than 90 percent of the operating-system market for PCs...
more at Bloomberg
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GB
On top of that, I paid full price for Office 2007, and it's a pos. I got a copy of Office 2003 from a family member, and got back all that was familiar over a dozen years of using prior versions of Office.
It would be nice to have Linux, I guess, but I know nothing about it. Maybe that's about to change:
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Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc.’s Android operating system, after making inroads into the mobile-phone market, may be running on portable computers within the next year, challenging the dominance of Microsoft Corp.
Google, which owns the most popular Internet search engine, could use its brand name and community of developers to get the software onto low-cost notebooks, said Ray Valdes, an analyst at Gartner Inc. One chipmaker, Freescale Semiconductor Inc., is already working on designs for an Android computer.
“Android could be a piece of a larger competitive battle between Google and Microsoft,” Valdes said. The San Jose, California-based analyst expects some kind of personal-computer device to use Android in the next 12 to 18 months.
Google is stepping up competition with Microsoft in areas outside of Internet searches, where it commands more than 60 percent of the U.S. market. While Android already battles Microsoft in software for mobile phones, moving into PCs would encroach onto its rival’s home turf. Microsoft has more than 90 percent of the operating-system market for PCs...
more at Bloomberg
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GB