mikedee - 11:41 pm on Apr 6, 2008 (gmt 0)

Well congratulations to Amazon shoppers who selected 'laptops' and 'sort by price'.

That is the whole point, Microsoft cannot get Vista to run on these low powered (cheaper) computers. The manufacturers of these laptops chose Linux because it is much more customizable and means they can get their laptops out at a cheaper price point.

They would not use Vista because it takes too many resources and they would not choose XP because it was going to be EOL'd. My guess is Microsoft will push XP Home for now and hope Windows 7 could be made more lightweight. The dates match up for the expected release of 7.