Microsoft developing $250 computers for low-income consumers

Microsoft is currently developing, with partners, ultra-low cost computers that will be sold to low-income students and families. Sales will begin in 2012.

According to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, some 100 million Americans, or one-third of the population of the United States do not have Internet access at home. Microsoft and its hardware partners will sell the computers, which include both desktop and laptop machines, replete with Windows 7 and Microsoft Office at a very low-cost rate.




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