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Joe Wilcox of Microsoft-Watch analyzes the latest notebook marketshare data from the NPD Group. He specifically looks at the revenue breakdown and Apple's long term decision to compete at the high-end market for notebooks.

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The Palm Centro is selling like hotcakes, but it's hurting Palm's margins. Palm is still struggling as it awaits the arrival of new Treos and a new operating system.

For this test, the reviewers examined power consumption as a way to judge whether Windows Server 2008 or Linux is, in fact, the 'greener' operating system.

The test points to Linux as the winner of the green flag by margins that topped out at 12%.

I believe the computing industry is waking up to the fact that lower costs to the consumer and higher margins to be had with a Linux OS in the razor thin margin PC manufacturing business is irresistible.

My prediction is that using Linux isn’t going to be an experiment - it is going to be essential in order to compete.