Needy Children To Receive Laptops With Microsoft XP, Office

Some of the world's poorest children are about to get high technology in the form of inexpensive laptops with Microsoft software and Intel processors. By W. David Gardner InformationWeek Some of the poorest children in the world are about to get high technology in the form of inexpensive laptops filled with software, largely as a result of battling by many of the world's largest high-tech firms who are seeking to establish beachheads in emerging markets. In Portugal, 500,000 children will be getting laptops with Intel processors loaded with Microsoft XP operating systems and Office 2007. In Peru, poor children will be getting laptops from the One Laptop Per Child program with XP and Microsoft Office 2003, according to media reports The major sea change, underway in recent weeks, is that Microsoft has agreed to install its XP... [read full story]