[GRLUG] WebOS for HP machines

[Bob Kline]

Not clear.  I suspect most will still take
windoz, but maybe will have the option
of not taking it, and getting, say, $50
knocked off the price?

    -- Bob


On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:42 AM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org>wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:03:07AM -0500, Bob Kline wrote:
> > http://www.mercurynews.com/business-headlines/ci_17575829?nclick_check=1
> >
> > **
> > In an interview 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 for PCs and mobile gadgets.
> > **
> >
> > It will be interesting to see how many takers
> > HP gets.  It can probably knock $50 off the price
> > of a machine by not having to bow to M$.
>
> Will this save them from having to do so?  Won't webOS be shipped
> *along with* Windows?
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