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Gates bashing $100 laptops and praising his business

Friday, 17. March 2006, 14:27:18

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No wonder Bill Gates slammed the $100 laptop MIT project backed by Google. Microsoft products are not likely to ever be part of these or future similar projects that aim at globalizing the computing experience in developing nations, because of their close nature and high costs, and this is no good news for the software giant and its chief software architect. He expressed that

hardware is only a small part of the cost of providing computing capabilities, and the big costs typically come from network connectivity, applications and support

Sure, if you use Microsoft products, you'll find yourself paying much more for software applications than for hardware. Nonetheless, I am curious about this project, because the articles referenced above mention a detail I wasn't aware of: these laptops won't have disks. And in this one I agree with Gates. How useful can be a computer with no disk?

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