Netbooks were originally intended to ship with Linux pre-installed, but to microsoft that meant letting consumers have an actual, real choice, and ballmer wouldn't have any of it (am I the only one who remembers a ms-asus join-venture site about netbooks called itsbetterwithwindows.com?) Anyway, netbooks stopped shipping with Linux preinstalled, which caused them to quickly nosedive into irrelevance.
TL;DR microsoft should have left the netbook market alone. They didn't. Fast-forward a few years, and it's biting them in the ass.
TL;DR microsoft should have left the netbook market alone. They didn't. Fast-forward a few years, and it's biting them in the ass.
Justice exists.