Microsoft’s hand forced on low-end computers
As previously noted, there has been a lot of activity in small, portable PCs (sometimes referred to as ultra-mobile PCs or UMPCs). The market is beginning to shape up in a major way and Microsoft has been forced to keep Windows XP Home alive in order to prevent Linux from walking off with all the sales. There is no way to cram Vista into one of these small machines. It seems pretty plain that Microsoft didn’t foresee how popular the trend to small machines would be. However, Bill Gates was leery enough that he tried to stomp on the One Laptop Per Child project (OLPC). Actually, Nicholas Negroponte and the OLPC project should get a lot of credit for making the computer industry aware of the potential. OLPC has not been a big commercial success, at least in part because of Microsoft, but Negroponte got the idea going.
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