Microsoft typically offer two Windows operating systems for the burgeoning netbook market.

Windows XP Home and  Windows Vista Business

Now getting Windows Vista Business on this generation of underpowered  netbooks is like going to a car dealer and asking for their slowest most expensive car.  It’s also going to be  painful to use.

Windows XP Home by all accounts runs pretty well but the gotcha is you cannot join Windows XP Home to any corporate environment that has a  Windows Server. Due to the inbuilt limitations of XP Home (that have been in place since XP’s launch in 2001).

So between this rock and hard place netbooks for now won’t be making much impact into the business world and this is just exactly what Microsoft wants.

They want to stave off the Linux onslaught so end users don’t get too comfortable with it, while at the same not eating into their core Windows business too much.

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