Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, revealed his preference for ultra netbooks compared to the annual meeting with financial analysts. Although the segment NETBOOK means for the company 11 percent of its business in the consumer PC, preinstalled Windows XP licenses for low cost airlines to stop Linux is its toll on the revenues of Microsoft, that the output of Windows 7 top-level commitment to the ultra-portable, which would pass a better compete with Apple’s MacBooks.

Ballmer said that manufacturers were preparing for the holiday season (the highest annual consumption) to launch a large amount of ultra-portable models for customers who want a full keyboard and screen when going to buy a NETBOOK.

The CEO of Microsoft said that “when a customer wants to buy a NETBOOK with an adequate screen, sellers have to offer a notebook PC.” “We want the user to have a higher performance while maintaining a light weight and spend more money with us and Intel, HP or Dell, “he explained.

Like Intel, which sells donuts as the Atom chip for netbooks, but in some cases cannibalize other solutions of higher revenues and higher profits for the company, Microsoft has reduced its income to maintain the life cycle of Windows XP to slow deployment of Linux on netbooks.

Now, with the marketing of Windows 7 to be licensed at prices much higher than those of XP, the company expects users to raise their budgets to buy more powerful machines that netbooks, a little “monster” for manufacturers that economic crisis has become the segment of the PC for more growth, despite its initial conception as a machine for the education sector in the third world countries or emerging.

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