Comments on: At Microsoft, seeking the next billion computer users

Bill Gates gave Will Poole a not-so-simple job: figure out how to connect the rest of the world's inhabitants to computer technology.
Video: Microsoft's MultiPoint for emerging markets

[jrhymer]

Incomplete Article

I would like to finish reading this article but the link to the second page is broken

[Stating]

Another Billion Infected Computers

I can't wait until Windows deploys to another billion computers, which then get infected. If you thought spam and zombies were bad already...

[LuvThatCO2]

Hate...

Hate... its so easy, isnt it? People like you amuse me because you're obviously a little bundle of anger and use Microsoft as an easy outlet rather than confronting whatever it is that controls you.

[yipcanjo]

Honestly....

...grow up.

[jhoeforth]

To all haters...

This would be my first and last reply to this kind of post. The reason for that is this kind of message is not even worth a reply. I just wanna share to people that the greatest thing we could do for a message like this is not to reply at all. Treat their opinions with no worth because that's what they really are.

[rcrusoe]

If MS wants another billion customers

they need to offer something a lot better than Vista.

[ihfwt]

Relevance?

Hello,

I'm sure that for many, PC's are not on the top of their list of priorities. Possibly, food,shelter,medicine,clean water a home,education etc....
Sounds like this guy Poole will be remembered as the next "Ebenezer Scrooge" !

Douglas Wong

[Troll Hard]

To the billions out there without a computer

food's really overrated, buy a $300 Microcomputer instead. It is a status symbol now, even if you cannot afford electricity in your apartment/house/etc just run it off a car battery or chip in for a $500 laptop that you can recharge off of a street lamp by hotwiring it as long as the Police don't find out.

You also want a Windows OS, so you can get infected with malware. But since most of the time your computer won't even be connected to the Internet or even powered by electricity, you might as well run Linux on it. You wouldn't even know what malware is, because you never got literate and completed grade school. Buy hey, you can be the envy of the other poor illiterates on your block with a computer in your possession. Chances are they'll beat you up and steal it from you to buy them some food, but at least you'll have bragging rights that one time you owned a computer and were a part of the free world, and not some totalitarian dictatorship like your government who would have corrupt leaders that might steal that computer away from you anyway as part of some greedy tax scheme.

[Xenu7-214951314497503184010868]

Microsoft's phone will be called a "Zone"

Now your phone can freeze up and need rebooting too!

[jamal_shah]

Low cost open source handheld out of Pakistan - already exists

When you want to seek innovation for developing countries, how about looking at what's happening IN developing countries first?

Take a look at the Sirius handheld computer from FiveRivers Technologies out of Pakistan. Here are two links: http://www.fiveriverstech.com and
http://www.opensirius.org

[The_happy_switcher]

next billion

If there's a god, a majority of them will NOT install windows.

[eGenerations]

i know the answer

and as much as i'd like share it, i'd like contact from a serious entity.

no, it has nothing to do with eGenerations.com, my current venture, but it is the harness to tomorrows information. no bs.

nathaniel adam briggs
[e-mail]

[eGenerations]

what it is - what it is not

this is quite frustrating.

its not about the technology as typically defined, it's about the integration: biological (human factors, logical choice, e.g. UI,etc ), socialogical (status value, upward mobility, +), functional/value and economical. while its a known game that a holistic approach is ideal, the key is proper embedding within the human factors.

Maybe in these generics it's overly obvious, my apologies if the presentation is such.

The "exact" answer, while dynamic, could be labeled exotic compared to todays standards, is actually quite simple.

-n
[e-mail]

[Microsoft_Facts]

It isn't going to happen...

MS's best days are behind them, to the benefit of mankind.