Asus Working on Google Android Netbook, Feb 21, 2009

Google Android is based on Linux and was originally developed for mobile phones. It’s finding it difficult to gain traction because of the success of Apple’s iPhone. Developers are heavily favoring the iPhone for their applications. The netbook market could be Android’s cup of tea.

For the first time in recent memory, Microsoft has a real operating system competitor for PCs. And Vista is not up to the challenge because they wants to sell it for full price and it’s too resource intensive for low powered netbooks . So Microsoft is relying on its two year outdated OS, Windows XP to take on Linux.