According to this press release Britain’s largest chain of computing superstores has dropped Linux from netbook sales in stores.
Brandon LeBlanc, Windows Communication Manager at Microsoft posted an article stating that
“We’ve seen Windows share on [netbooks] in the U.S. go from under 10% of unit sales during the first half of 2008 to 96% as of February 2009, according to the latest NPD Retail Tracking Service data.”
The pros and cons of Windows vs. Linux may be debatable, but I have not seen yet any challenge to this statistic.