Alborg, the NetBook is simply a fleeting effort by Microsoft to keep windows on the desktop.
Stop and think for a moment, that billions of people in the world are connected to the internet not by a netbook, but by a cell phone.
The cell phone is indeed the final frontier, the final delivery platform for software.
MS has managed to stretch out its Windows brand for as long as possible. Microsoft understands that putting Windows 7 on a mobile device, like Apple has done with it's OS X kernel, is it only path to survival. The netbook is a stop along the way.