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Microsoft pinagbiagan ti netbooks para iti baba a panangipablaak

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief January 23, 2009 · 2 min read

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Ag ti last quarter a numero manipud iti Microsoft ket saan met laeng a mangsagana. Gapu ta, inannunsiar ti Microsoft a mapapatayna 5,000 nga empleado iti sumaganad a 18 a bulan, a mairaman dagiti 1,800 a naipapanaw idiay aldaw a daytoy.

Ti rason -- kinuna ti Microsoft a parte daytoy kadagiti netbook.

Naipakita ti panagbassit ti revenue babaen dagiti naadda a SQL Server ken Windows Server, ken naadda a Xbox 360 platform, ngem napigsa daytoy babaen ti pannakaadda ti Windows operating systems gapu iti kaaduan ti PC market ken ti panagbaliw kadagiti mas mabalin a netbook PCs. Adda met laeng a maipapan iti foreign currency exchange rates a $222 million wenno maysa a percentage point. (sumber: page 25, Microsoft Quarterly Report, Form Q10)

Saanak a napangapapan. Itanem ti bannog a press launch nga addaak, a mangipadur-as kadagiti baro a netbooks, maysa kadagiti immuna a panangipadaak ket ti umay-ayam Windows XP ken no ania ti makasakit iti bottomline ti Microsoft.

Marikayo a, nagkenneg ti Microsoft kadagiti manufaktur netbook babaen ti panangipatarus iti napigsa a diskonto para Windows XP Home. Ti agserserko ket mabalin a makita manipud Php1,000 agingga iti Php2,000 imbes a ti Php4,000 a presio retail.

Daytoy a kasapian ket nagipigpigsa ni Microsoft nga saan a bentaen ti Windows Vista ken ti premium a presio a mangsagrapanna. Iti paset, makabaelan ni Microsoft a bentaen dagiti napulo a riwriw a lisensia ti XP para iti nasansan a half ti usual a presio.

Kasapulanko ayan ket adda ti kapada nga epekto iti Intel -- imbes a bentaen dagiti Core 2 Duo a may-ayup a margin, pinagbabaan da ti $30+ babaen ti Atom CPU.

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36 Comments

TechChaser · 17 years ago

Microsoft is going nowhere its main competitors is readying a killer platform, HP and Oracle is in partnership to deliver the most powerful machine in this planet, this one is big and massive it could crush anything including Microsoft.

JC John SESE-Cuneta · 17 years ago

Interesting.

And still no one wants to use GNU/Linux. I guess, as long as XP is available, Linux will be ignored ;)

If gaming is the issue, go get a desktop :p

Angelo Panares · 17 years ago

I’m thinking Intel might also also go the same route on their Atom procs :)

elmer · 17 years ago

Hmm.. maybe Intel will use the same reason. Becasue of atom the demand for core proc declined that’s why they closed out their cavite plant

LinQed Potatoes · 17 years ago

imo, “partly due” will still lead to their marketing strategy. are they not thankful that xp is still in the market with all those netbooks sold?

if their marketing strategy in lowering down the price of the xp for netbooks is good then they need to wait until it’s a boom. they know that they are having a recession in their country, why not create a better marketing strategy to make their sales boost up?

as what i see in their strategy nowadays, they are only looking on the design of their OS, why not create a system in the current OS that they are marketing which will boost the business firm?

i am currently using windows 7 and i can’t use the whole system to better suits the needs of my business unlike xp where i can do everything. so what i do is to switch OS from time to time because i might see something in windows 7 that will make me switch to it fully when the commercial software is released.

issai · 17 years ago

noone’s buying these days. isn’t that the reason why they’re losing profit? netbooks could be just scapegoats.

they put vista on a emachines d620 laptop, and it’s cheaper than netbooks but haven’t seen these laptops sold lately ($300-$330 price range). i wonder why they stopped selling those.

well you did say “partly due”, so i guess they’re telling the truth.

Jacobato · 17 years ago

hmmm… actually, if ms wasnt allowed to play in the netbook market, lunix would have dominated it totally. glass half-empty or half-full? they should be thankful XP was allowed for netbooks by both component manufacturers and OEMs.

Angelo Panares · 17 years ago

I think the netbooks have succeeded in their objective of providing affordable, easy to use, no nonsense pc for the not so tech savy people as well as the always mobile minial users.

The linux desktop oses are a breeze to use for non-techies who just surfs, chats and types. Yet it is flexible enough to be able to install xp for the advance users.

The limitations on it are manageable considering its target market and how it is supposed to be used.

John · 17 years ago

Well i think one of the reason also for their weakening PC market is the expensive Windows Vista Retail Products. Windows Vista Ultimate Retail Version kicks up to 15k PHP. Many people can’t afford to lose that amount of money just to buy a 1-PC capable installer.

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Gerard Espinas · 17 years ago

Window Vista is one of the Microsoft’s technology blunder. I would say, it’s a failure! Will Window 7 turn the tide around for Microsoft?

calvin · 17 years ago

guess this proves that vista didn’t pan out for them. even some companies still haven’t switched to vista.

sylv3rblade · 17 years ago

Hmm.. I’m thinking how Windows 7 RTM will fair running on Netbooks at the moment with determine if the trend will continue.

XP is old ._. Let’s face it. I for one Welcome 7 on my MSI Wind

samarita · 17 years ago

the trend now is in Netbooks , because of the financial crisis many are now buying netbooks instead of buying desktops … maybe because of its lower price than desktop and its easy to maintain and the availability of wifi networks around has increased the trend in Netbooks thus leaving other Microsoft products untouched.

marion · 17 years ago

More reasons for MS to hurry up with its 7 release.

Andre Marcelo-Tanner · 17 years ago

still if the market is heading towards netbooks, economies of scale will make up for the lower priced xp. vista runs slow enough on the fastest systems, why put it on a netbook :)