Could what, one might wonder? Unless the Wal-Mart shopping public that bought out the first run of 10,000 Everex, Ubuntu-powered, $199 PCs returns them in droves, maybe it's time for Microsoft to become concerned.
Or possibly not. Windows resides on millions of PCs globally, with Office occupying plenty of those machines in corporate and other environments. Ten thousand PCs doesn't register as a seismic event; Apple has a small percentage share of PC ownership, but that counts in the millions.
Not to mention, the biggest Apple software development house not located in Cupertino resides at Microsoft's headquarters, as the company likes to remind the Mac faithful.
With Wired cited research that sneered at the "unsophisticated" Wal-Mart shopper buying the Everex machine because it's crammed inside a big case, Everex seems ready to keep those buyers using an OS not called Windows, by providing follow me on Twitter
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