IBM has laid out plans for a Microsoft-free PC by joining up with Canonical/Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat to bring Linux systems to market next year.
IBM left the mainstream PC market in 2005 by selling its division to Lenovo for $3.5bn (£1.79bn). Slow Vista sales are behind the move to Linux.
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