Analysts: Google Android no threat to Windows 7 on netbooks

Posted on Saturday, March 28 2009 @ 5:25 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
CIO reports industry analysts don't see Google's Android operating system as a big threat to Windows 7 in the netbook market.
Another tech analyst, Tim Bajarin, president of consulting firm Creative Strategies, believes that Google will eventually extend Android to netbooks, but not until early to mid 2010. No matter when an Android netbook arrives, he says, Google will confront mainstream PC buyers who are wary of Linux and comfortable with Windows.

"I still believe that a netbook is just a smaller laptop and that the majority of them will be Windows based even if an Android version does come to market in the future," says Bajarin.


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