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The Curse of Windows-powered Sub-notebooks

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http://boycottnovell.com – BURIED in the news was this interesting nugget of information which suggests that Microsoft’s UMPC partner could be in its deathbed. The emergence of low-cost sub-notebooks which run GNU/Linux could not have done OQO any good. (General)

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