Got to agree with Billy on this one. I just got back from a short fishing trip to Texas. I used my palm serveral times and about half of my page request were the wrong requested page which is somewhat of my own fault considering my age (of course Cingular billing will love all the page downloads). Then again my 650 treo would not be anything like a well developed Google Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tiny Little Screen Less A Hard Drive Software Optional 100. I suppose the memory cache would make up all the difference considering how poor the user may be anyway. At least Bill Gates knows there's more to half a cow than the head and tail. (For the full store read below)
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Wednesday mocked a $100 laptop computer for developing countries being developed with the backing of rival Google at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The $100 laptop project seeks to provide inexpensive computers to people in developing countries. The computers lack many features found on a typical personal computer, such as a hard disk and software.
"The last thing you want to do for a shared use computer is have it be something without a disk...and with a tiny little screen," Gates said at the Microsoft Government Leaders Forum in suburban Washington, D.C.
"Hardware is a small part of the cost" of providing computing capabilities, he said, adding that the big costs come from network connectivity, applications and support.
Before his critique, Gates showed off a new " ultramobile computer" which runs Microsoft Windows on a seven-inch touch screen. Those machines are expected to sell for between $599 and $999, Microsoft said at the product launch last week.
"If you are going to go have people share the computer, get a broadband connection and have somebody there who can help support the user, geez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you're not sitting there cranking the thing while you're trying to type," Gates said.
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