Explaining Windows 8 PC Sales Over the Holidays

Re:Explaining Windows 8 PC Sales Over the Holidays by lake_rogue on Saturday January 05, 2013 @04:10PM (#5014068)

How does this hurt Microsoft? If everyone is tossing their netbook every 6 months, doesn't Microsoft get them to pay the Windows licensing fee more frequently?

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Re:Explaining Windows 8 PC Sales Over the Holidays by wazoox on Saturday January 05, 2013 @04:51PM (#5014202)

Of course I can't draw definitive conclusion from a couple of cases, but the 3 linux netbooks I've bought in 2007/2008 are still in use. And AFAIK my mother's 2008 aspire one only recently failed afer 4 years of heavy use.

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Re:Explaining Windows 8 PC Sales Over the Holidays by freehunter on Saturday January 05, 2013 @05:26PM (#5014298)

My mom bought one for my sister this summer before her first year at university. An EeePC 10" something or other. I'm still using my 3-year-old Lenovo netbook as an Arduino programming machine because it's so portable and runs Linux.

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