Putting Windows On A Diet ... To Compete With Linux
How scared is Microsoft of Linux? There's a hint or two of its fear in the fact that MS is preparing a special slim-and-trim version of Windows XP, within the next month or two, to run specifically on Asus's Eee PC. You'd think maybe it could have done this slimming-down sooner -- something that Linux already does without breaking a sweat.
Based on an in-depth examination of XP on the Eee published in Australian PC, plenty of evidence turned up that XP needed to be put on a diet to make the best use of the current iterations of the Eee. With just the bare OS installed, that gobbled a little over half of the Eee's 4 GB flash storage.
Also: Microsoft looks to avoid losses to Linux in embedded OS market
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