What to Expect from Marzipan

Re:What to Expect from Marzipan by dspillett on Friday May 10, 2019 @04:55AM (#19876184)

Tablets they were definitely ahead of the game on, though the hardware wasn't ready to be affordable the OS has never done well in that environment so it didn't work out.

I'm not so sure about netbooks though: I remember that being something the played "catchup or kill" on. Any links to refresh my history?

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Re:What to Expect from Marzipan by laumars on Friday May 10, 2019 @08:18AM (#19877010)

You're right about Netbooks. Microsoft were late to the game on that one. All the early ones were Linux - and still hugely popular too. Microsoft then had to heavily "subsidise" XP to even compete (there's a lot more to it than that but that was the essence of it).

Interestingly Apple said they had no interest in the Netbook market. They released the MacBook Air which had a roughly equivolent form factor but at a wildly different price point.

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Re:What to Expect from Marzipan by dspillett on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @09:22AM (#19919113)

> "subsidise" XP

Not just that: they effectively had to extend its life as there was no way Vista was going to run well on those small devices and 7 wasn't ready for roll-out.

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