Re: MS is doomed... any year now

On 28 Apr 2024 18:24:43 GMT, rbowman wrote:

On 28 Apr 2024 17:53:42 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
 

It was the day eeePC came along, the new version of Windows couldn't
run on it, only the old unavailable version could. But the last version
of Ubuntu was running very well. And the eeePC with Ubuntu sold very
well and seeing that Microsoft extended the old version of Windows.
That way, people could buy eeePC with Windows on it.

 
The Eee PC 4G Surf was first released with Xandros.
 
... I can't imagine XP on that hardware.

I have an original-model Eee 701 with Xandros on it, still here in this
office. I was able to put Kubuntu on an SD card and boot off that, without
disturbing the Xandros install. Kind of fun to see KDE 4 with all those 3D
effects running at fully-interactive speeds, when newly-released Vista
could manage its “Aero Glass” equivalent only on higher-end, much more
expensive hardware.

Microsoft revived XP specifically to fight back against the Linux
netbooks. Whereas my Eee booted off an SSD, I think they had to have hard
drives for the Windows versions. Because Windows couldn’t run without a
swap file, and continual writing to the swap file would shorten the life
of an SSD.