Ubuntu: brought to you by Microsoft

Posted at 5:08pm on Thursday July 2nd 2009

...or at least so says Dell on their website. This neat little netbook apparently comes with a 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 8GB of disk space, and the, er, well-known Microsoft operating system Ubuntu 8.04.

Thanks to submitter, Chris Brown.

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maybe they got it wrong in the first place :P

redraven (not verified) - July 2, 2009 @ 6:30pm

or maybe is a new way of microsoft trying to kill canonical :P saying that ubuntu is made from microsoft ..
anyway this is funny hahaha

Most likely just their template

loki1950 - July 2, 2009 @ 10:43pm

It's probably just a lazy web site maintainer ;)or their template has no option for non M$ OS's and the maintainer with no edit privileges.
Enjoy the Choice :)

Publicity

lucjon - July 2, 2009 @ 11:41pm

It's a secret Dell publicity stunt. Everyone I know "hates" Linux. But they love Microsoft! Convenient.

In Microsoft's Dreams

jraz (not verified) - July 3, 2009 @ 12:28am

So what's next a MS takeover attempt at Canonical? Way to go Dell. I bet MS ups their license fees.

LOL

terrywang - July 3, 2009 @ 12:37am

Probably it was published using their own CMS and the publisher didn't check it after publishing. Or the guy just had no idea about what Ubuntu is...;-)

Faaaail!

Dan Dart (not verified) - July 3, 2009 @ 4:11am

Failure. M$, go die now.

LOL

Tuxedo (not verified) - July 3, 2009 @ 5:40am

Or did Canonical buy Microsoft recently and quietly replacing Windows for Ubuntu?

It's a typo, a non-story.

pootle pot (not verified) - July 3, 2009 @ 8:34am

It's a typo, a non-story. Typos stopped being funny, or even interesting, donkey's years ago.

RE: Ubuntu: brought to you by Microsoft

Metus (not verified) - July 3, 2009 @ 8:59am

I agree with loki1950

"It's probably just a lazy web site maintainer ;)or their template has no option for non M$ OS's and the maintainer with no edit privileges.
Enjoy the Choice :)"

RE: It's a typo, a non-story.

Tuxedo (not verified) - July 3, 2009 @ 9:25am

This is not a typo. Tihs is a typo.

The error on the Dell website is just an example that netbooks apparantly have Windows as a default OS and that webmasters do not expect anything else. Which makes this error an example of blatant ignorance as well.

I can't find this info on

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - July 3, 2009 @ 9:37am

I can't find this info on Dell web site! Please, point here link to this info, because i see, that Dell sales netbooks with Microsoft Windows only!

Mono

rufus D (not verified) - July 3, 2009 @ 2:46pm

And I thought this story was about the recent inclusion of mono in ubuntu...

Only one word...

ExAstris (not verified) - July 3, 2009 @ 4:12pm

...can properly describe this:

FAIL!

OK

DaveS (not verified) - July 3, 2009 @ 4:54pm

Still a nice little piece though.............

Well, I think that's a bug

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - July 4, 2009 @ 9:00pm

Well, I think that's a bug in Dell's web site. No more, no less.

They've included MONO for

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - July 6, 2009 @ 12:01am

They've included MONO for years (C#) so it is Microsoft Ubuntu

No, no, its NovellSoft

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - July 6, 2009 @ 5:07am

C;mon, you know Miguel has got some serious Redmond envy in him.

Shuttleworth, not so much.

Rumor tiem

BW (not verified) - July 6, 2009 @ 5:46pm

This is actually a major leak - Dell knows about the secret acquisition talks going on between MS and Canonical, and let it slip!!!11!!! ;)

Let it slip

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - July 6, 2009 @ 6:35pm

I think this was intentional.So I guess the web editor may not be that lazy after all.And guess what he may not have a job anymore.hehehehe

Blasphemy

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - July 6, 2009 @ 6:57pm

Micro$hit ubuntu, WTF????

LOL

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - July 6, 2009 @ 9:12pm

I knew Ubuntu holding on to Mono would lead to bad things.

What a bunch of dumbasses. Just when I thought it was ok to buy Dell.

shame on my-crow-shaft

Anonymous (not verified) - July 7, 2009 @ 9:21am

Is it another my-crow-shaft's marketing strategy with Dell's support? I just can't stop laughing at it on the face of Microsoft Windows OS!

Note the extra software packages

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - July 7, 2009 @ 10:03am

If you customise that Dell Ubuntu system, you can add Microsoft Office Home and Student, GSP Internet Security Suite, Mcafee Anti-theft, Roxio Creator, Avanquest PodMediaCreator and WebPod Studio. Also Online training for Microsoft Vista. I could not see any installation service for these options though ;-)

ROFL!

theguywholikeslinux - July 7, 2009 @ 10:12am

Wow, I can't believe what I am seeing! I don't no how or why it has happened but it is really funny and we can make a whole load of good jokes about it! Maybe there will be a laptop with "Canonical Windows 7" in a few years!!!!

lol!

Something weird.

theguywholikeslinux - July 7, 2009 @ 10:14am

All the posts are double! What is happening? Microsoft is taking over my Ubuntu, nooooo!!!!!!

plicploc

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - July 8, 2009 @ 3:39pm

Crétins!

Oh my god

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - July 15, 2009 @ 9:26pm

Microsoft Ubuntu 8.04 :D :D :D

Microsuck

Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - July 29, 2009 @ 4:08pm

If this is about Canonical teaming up with Micro**** then i will quit ubuntu all together.
i mean if it's going to microsoft, we might as well use winloose,lol.