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Five years ago, I wrote an article about the relatively new class of netbook computers. I suggested the ultra-low price machines runnin...

Although I've been sceptical of the OLPC project, not least because of its ridiculous decision to offer a Windows XP version - putting t...

The rise of the netbook has been an extraordinary saga. When the Asus Eee PC was first launched at the end of 2007, it seemed to come from n...

Here's an excellent point : Even Windows-based netbooks are good news for open source, though. Firefox is pre-loaded on the millions of ...

Remember OQO ? It was a really innovative machine, well ahead of its time. Essentially it was a netbook before they existed, but it made ...

One of the most vexed questions at the moment is the state of the netbook market. What are the returns for GNU/Linux-based systems? And is...

There's been a lot of sound and fury flying around about the split between GNU/Linux and Windows XP sales on netbooks, and what that mea...

The world and their dog seems to be talking about Windows 7 at the moment. Ironically, in part that's because it's proving almost im...

This blog post explains in painful detail how OLPC was "turned" by Microsoft - and hence why I have personally given up on the pr...

One of the surprises of 2008 was the runaway success of the ultaportable/netbook form factor. Now that systems running Windows XP are availa...

As someone who has been following Microsoft for over 25 years, I remain staggered by the completeness of the Vista fiasco. Microsoft's c...

This is something that I predicted would happen: The company's Windows client business grew by half its anticipated target - two perce...

Talking of ultraportables, can it really be just a year that they've been around? Apparently : ASUS sold over 350,000 Eee PCs in the fo...

Yet another reason to buy the GNU/Linux version: Asus has admitted that some of the its Eee Box desktop mini PCs have shipped with a virus....

...or anything : "As more customers make the move to Windows Vista, we want to make sure that they are making that transition with conf...

There can be few open source projects that offered so much promise, and yet which have so signally failed to deliver, as One Laptop Per Chil...

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OpenDrive Version 1.0 (for Windows XP/Vista) Yes , and? Nice name, OpenDrive; pity about the product, which isn't.

On Open Enterprise blog .

This is getting truly hilarious : Microsoft has further extended the life of Windows XP so that computer makers can include the operating sy...