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TAIWANESE ELECTRONICS HOUSE Asustek has ditched Windows in favour of Google’s Android operating system on its Eeepad tablet.

The 10-inch Eeepad was first demonstrated at this year’s Computex show running an embedded version of Windows 7. It seems, however, that the firm doesn’t want its tablet device saddled with Microsoft’s bloated operating system, so instead it is opting for the Linux based Android operating system.

Asustek has decided that it will wait for Google to release Android 3.0, known as Gingerbread, before it will launch the Eeepad into the wild. Currently Android 3.0 is slated for release at the end of this year, so we expect that the Eeepad will follow shortly thereafter.

Microsoft tried to put on a good show at this year’s Computex by getting a number of vendors to run its cut-down Windows Embedded Compact 7 operating system on their tablets. The operating system is aimed at limited functionality devices such as keyboard-less tablet computers, though it seems that Asustek wanted a little more in the way of security and usability.

Google’s Android operating system has emerged as the primary competitor to Apple’s Iphone OS in smartphones, however it has yet to make the same splash among tablet devices. That is likely to change, as today it was revealed that Lenovo, like Asustek, has decided to load Android on its tablet, instead of any Microsoft OS software.

While Microsoft might have run over Linux with Windows in the netbook market, it looks like the roles have now reversed, with Microsoft’s crap OS software starting to look like the prey, dead meat thanks to Google. µ