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It's not HP's first attempt to do a computer without Windows. My
wife has an HP Mini that while it came with Windows XP initially, HP
produced a heavily customized Linux for it. She tried it for a while
after the XP installation became unusable, and the Linux was a
fairly neat neophyte interface. Unfortunately, it was a little too
heavily locked down and couldn't be persuaded to install any apps
beyond what it came with. I think it was still a better
implementation than the mess that came on some of the Linux ASUS
EeePC's. <br>
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On 03/10/2011 12:03 AM, Bob Kline wrote:
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:
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published this week, Apotheker told Bloomberg News that HP
intends to offer the webOS software along with Microsoft's
well-known Windows operating system on all of its PCs. The
company hopes to increase the adoption of webOS, both by PC
users and by independent developers who create applications
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<div>It will be interesting to see how many takers</div>
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<div>of a machine by not having to bow to M$.</div>
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