Software behemoth strikes a deal to provide its operating system to the low-cost laptop nonprofit that promises to bring laptops to every kid in the world. Will Microsoft make inroads, like Apple, with youth market or will it get pummeled by Linux geeks?
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The scientist behind the One Laptop Per Child nonprofit, whose goal was to bring low-cost notebooks to the poor, forms Pixel Qi, a startup that intends to produce $75 laptops.
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The chip maker says it will drop out of the nonprofit project that aimed to sell $100 laptops to the world's poor children.
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The MIT Media Lab co-founder has a big plan to shrink the digital divide.
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The Microsoft chairman’s criticism of a cheap laptop for poor kids provokes anger.
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