[ale] Microsoft partly blames Linux for missing profit targets

[Jeff Lightner]

In story at:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090122/bs_nm/us_microsoft

 

It says at one point:

"Microsoft's shares dropped 9 percent, adding to a 40 percent decline in
the past year. It blamed the miss on the weakness of the PC market and
the popularity of low-cost netbook computers, which have combined to
badly undercut sales of its dominant Windows operating system."

 

And later:

"Microsoft faces a shift by PC buyers to less expensive netbooks, which
are small, stripped-down laptops. Netbooks can run Windows, but
Microsoft makes more on each sale of Windows for a PC than it does for a
netbook. Some netbooks also use the rival open-source Linux software,
which further undercuts Windows sales."
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