Microsoft Claims Netbook OS Dominance as Linux Lags

April 7th, 2009

n the growing netbook market, where it once lagged well behind its open-source competition, Microsoft is now proclaiming operating-system dominance.According to the NPD Group, the growth of Windows on netbook PCs has skyrocketed over the past year. Microsoft has grown Windows’ netbook market share from less than 10 percent in the first half of 2008 to a whopping 96 percent as of February 2009.

“It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since we first started to see netbook PCs running Windows come to market,” said Brandon LeBlanc, Microsoft’s Windows blogger. “Little did we know that these devices would evolve so much in such a short time. A year ago, they were Internet-centric devices defined mainly by their tiny size and low cost. An interesting concept perhaps, but sales didn’t really take off until the category evolved into the more capable small notebook PCs we see on the market today.”

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