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It was a major blow last week to Microsoft since the operating system monopolist might run the risk of being a monopolist no longer, especially since netbooks are all the rage in the PC industry right now, accounting for the lion's share of the industry's growth. If someone as mega as an HP was sniffing around for an OS alternative, that'd be bad. If HP was cozying up to no less a Microsoft competitor as Google, that'd be really, really bad.
That brings us to yesterday, where Acer's chief Gianfranco Lanci, headlined a New York event where instead of contributing to the air of a software smack down, he smacked down the notion almost entirely. He said Google's Android, despite heavy press to the contrary, and the success it has enjoyed on various smart phones, including the G1 from T-Mobile, simply isn't ready to run a netbook.
"Android, in my opinion, is for communications. And Windows comes a the market from the computing side. An ideal solution would offer both. So right now we are using Android for our smart phone, and we are testing it on our netbooks. But I think everybody in the industry is testing Android on netbooks," Lanci says, according to CNET.
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