No wonder Linux netbooks are not selling ‘that’ well! – Microsoft teaches Best Buy to trash Linux

Microsoft has confirmed (to dailyfinance) that it actually DOES train the Best Buy Employees the ‘important’ differences between Linux and Windows Computers. Few Best Buy employees leaked the training slides on the web which depict the Microsoft’s Anti-Linux agenda “Linux does not support many common applications and online services like iTunes, Zune, Quicken, Photoshop, and Office 2007″. They even go one step ahead and simply said “Linux is not safer than Windows”

Our take on the aforementioned claims by MSFT:

1) Linux does not support many common applications and online services like iTunes, Zune, Quicken, Photoshop, and Office 2007:

Linux may not be having the exact apps, but it has alternatives that do the same stuff. All that for free. For Photoshop, one can get GIMP. For Office, Openoffice and many others. There is even an app for syncing music with your iPod!

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Updated EEE Linux OS for EEE PCs (700, 701, 900, 901, 1000H etc)

ASUS never rolled much needed updates for the EEE PCs that ran their Xandros Linux OS. No upgrades were given to the (poor) users of the EEE 700-series which were forced to use old version of Firefox (v2). Folks at XEPC.org have unveiled version 1.7 of the EEE PC OS that is compatible with EEE 700, 701, 701SD, 900, 900A, 900SD, 901, 904HD, 1000 and S101.

The main features and improvements that you will find in this update are:

• Support for more languages
• More themes
• Inclusion of Firefox 3 and OpenOffice 2.4<==
• It uses kernal 2.6.26 that supports hyperthreading. Ofcourse, you need a netbook that has an Atom processor in it to use hyperthreading. This also means that this feature won’t work on the netbooks that use Celeron processor that includes 700-series

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