The market has spoken and it clearly wants a consumer Linux computer. The sub-notebook Asus Eee PC has not been able to meet demand and is predicted to sell up to 5 million units worldwide next year. If that comes true a single product will have on its own shifted consumer Linux market share upwards a notch or two. However, there is a threat on the horizon for this break-through Linux product - and it comes from Asus itself.

Taiwan-based Asus has promised to bring a Windows version of the Eee PC out before the end of 2007. Why could that be a threat to the Linux version already on the market? The answer is obvious.

Consumers are not interested in what operating system a computer is running. Unfortunately, they don't even care all that much about which operating system offers the best security. All they're interested in is what a computer can do. And without a doubt they'll have more applications at their disposal with Windows.

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