I just bought two acer one netbooks for the office. They came with windows which I rapidly replaced with Ubuntu UNR and they look damn nice.
My office has been running Ubuntu for 6 months and as the staff are familiar with it, Ubuntu on the netbook is "familiar" to them.
In fact, after using Ubuntu, my staff are hooked. My Secretary even brought her personal laptop in to me to have windows replaced with Ubuntu.
I agree though, the problem with linux on netbooks is the dumbed down interface. When you get a machine with XP it is just the normal desktop. If they stick Linux on them with a normal and more familiar desktop setup, they would see far less people returning them.

I wanna know who keeps cutting the cables to Egypt and the rest of the Middle East. Talk about knocking out sections of infrastructure.

Yeah you heard me. Screw the Embargo. My company does business with Iranians and the US can swear black and blue at me. I still won't stop.

Good on HP. The Iranians need printers too.

My Office runs Ubuntu Linux and uses OpenOffice. This is just another good reason why my decision to dump windows completely from the office was a very good business decision.

For the rest, Microsoft just made piracy 10x more attractive to them. ;)