While the Wind hasn't changed much, it has aged quite well.
Although ASUS was quick to put out a 10" competitor, it initially retailed for quite a bit more than the Wind and for a while at least, the Wind looked like quite a bargain. It offered the Atom platform with a 10 inch screen for $400 when the competition, namely the Eee PC, was still working on 9 inches at a price of around $500. When the MSI Wind was initially released in the US, it was quite attractive.
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The Eee PC has gone through multiple design iterations since then, but both the MSI Wind and the Aspire One have stayed relatively the same. Netbook-mania and the first retail-available responses to the Eee didn't appear until nearly 6 months later, but when it did, it arrived in the form of the MSI Wind, followed closely by the Acer Aspire One.
Certainly no one who has seen netbook sales figures is asking that question anymore but at the time few companies were eager to jump onto a new and unproven bandwagon.
At the time, there was still speculation about whether or not anyone would even be interested in a low power, low cost, ultraportable notebook. Immediately after ASUS launched the Eee PC into an unsuspecting notebook market over a year ago, the short term answer from competitors was, well, nothing, save perhaps for the XO-1 from the OLPC organization.