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Thursday, April 19, 2007

Techmeme: Microsoft aims to reach next billion PC users (Ina Fried/CNET News.com):Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is using a speech in Beijing to unveil a new low-cost bundle of Office and Windows, one of several new initiatives aimed at getting PCs into the hands of more people in emerging markets.Do them a favor, give them Linux. Don’t these “emerging markets” have enough problems without subjecting them to Windows? ;-) Next thing you know we’ll be sending them cheap cigarette’s…Oh wait, we already do.

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