Acer will have a tough time using Chrome OS, Android to offset sliding PC sales

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13 points·cpleppert··5 comments

If anyone else notices the odd tone I checked the byline which explains it: "Peter Bright / Peter is a Microsoft Contributor at Ars.".

I'm too young to remember the era before Microsoft. I grew up thinking computer == windows. That a major Windows OEM is hoping for a saviour in linux distros and that this is not big news is amazing. That a self-proclaimed Microsoftfy's biggest "concern" is profit margin also underlines how far the world has changed. Granted Android and ChromeOS are not the linux distros slashdot hoped would rule. I would take issue with this and yet the freedom to be different is a culmination of the four freedoms. It took a while but open source's fundamental advantages are pulling it ahead bit by bit.

Well desperate times require desperate measures. The simple truth is staying with windows is doom for all but 1 vendor that will catch bigger part from a shrinking pie.

Peter[1] is not a "microsofty" (actually, I'm not quite sure what that is). He's a journalist who covers MS related news for Ars, and he has done so for years. He's highly opinionated, but I wouldn't say he has a strong pro-Microsoft bias anymore (he did in some of his early writing).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DrPizza

Sounds like someone is upset Acer is "quitting" Microsoft.

As long as they start doing Ubuntu Tablets and Phones, it's all fine by me.

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