Microsoft showcases its “$100 laptop”
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For some reason, Microsoft has the best tactic when it comes to provide a low-cost computer to emerging countries: Wait!
Wait to witness India dismisses the Nicholas Negroponte’s $140 Linux laptop. Wait until its FonePlus prototype is ready, and starts selling it as an alternative to the best low-cost solution.
FonePlus just consists of a Windows CE powered Smartphone that could be connected to a television display and a keyboard. Only word processing, multimedia playback and Web browsing “using scaled-down versions of Internet Explorer, Word and Windows Media Player,” describes ZDNet UK.
But who cares? For those simplified applications, “it’s harder to distinguish this from a computer,” said Craig Mundie, Microsoft chief research officer. In short, let’s sell some obsolete phones for real computers. The best tactic.
Jul 28, 2006 | By Nuno
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