Microsoft Tax Archive

  • What ChromeOS Means For Netbooks And Why Microsoft Needs To Be Scared

    What ChromeOS Means For Netbooks And Why Microsoft Needs To Be Scared

    Posted on November 19, 2009 | No Comments
    While you won't be able to sense it at first, expect to feel a high frequency buzz from the direction of Redmond in the next few months. That's the Windows 7 and Office group fearing the rise of a new juggernaut on low-cost computing hardware, ChromeOS. ChromeOS may not be powerful, it may not play Far Cry and it may not run Microsoft Office but it's a game changer. The underpowered laptops that limped along under Vista, XP, or 7 will fly under a new ChromeOS regime and thin-and-light laptops will fall below the vaunted $199 mark as the so-called "Microsoft Tax" - basically the small cost manufacturers pay for OEM licenses - disappears.

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  • Five Things Google’s Chrome OS Will Do for Your Netbook

    Five Things Google’s Chrome OS Will Do for Your Netbook

    Posted on July 8, 2009 | No Comments
    Chrome OS, Google’s newly announced computer operating system, is coming this autumn and promises to revolutionize netbooks and other underpowered machines. Essentially, the OS is a small, fast-booting platform whose purpose is to run a browser, and from there all the Google apps and other web services you know and love. But why bother? Your [...]

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