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CIO, June, 2008 by Steff Gelston
Microsoft Looks Beyond Low-Cost Laptops
Microsoft is looking beyond ultra-low-cost laptops to cheaper alternatives such as smartphones and shared computing in the drive to give people in developing nations a way to communicate and access the Internet.
The world's largest software maker has a few projects in the making, including a push to use mobile phones in computing and microfinance. Mobile phones have had an impact in the developing world, enabling people such as farmers and fishermen to find better markets and prices. Handsets give a person a way to be reached for jobs.
"Technologies like the mobile phone promise to take things like very small loans, microfinance, and allow them to operate in a very efficient infrastructure so that the price and the...
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