Well im sorry but id huvta say "wrong answer bud". Do you honestly belive that M$ plays with dice when it comes to market oportunities? They are a couple of hundreds steps away from what the real market timing is. A notebook may huv been a hit in 08, n in 07 had a lame start but M$ knew bout em since 04 when the netbook "proyects" started. I thought this was common knowledge, but lemme explain it to you real fast, in order to get this netbooks on the market theres an entire infrastructure (or backend if u like) behind the machine blueprints, n im talkin bout market estimates, market studies, new technologies, well... pretty much all sorta stuff we, on this side of the market, dont get to see unless u work for one of those computer manufacturers corporations or companies. That being said, M$ has some pretty badass legal contracts with most of these manufacturers, n which ever manufacturer gets the latest version of win offered on their product, and workin, ll give em such a humongous amount of profit there is just not enough room on slashdot's host to type that number in. A couple of years ago, when IBM started their unique "Linux" campaign, everyone was just goin mental about puttin money on it (manufacturers that is), such as dell, lenovo (which isnt IBM, just bought a product line, know how, n a whole bunch of corporate stuff), HP, etc etc. But, it failed, they thought it d somehow end with M$'s tyrany in short terms, but it didnt, normal users (unsuspecting public if you want) dont like linux, they are still afraid their computer might eat them if they hit the ScrLk button or sth, so they rely on Windows to satisfy this.
Try to open ure mind a bit, corp world is too huge to sum it up in a couple of lines, but trust me on this one, ive seen it happen.