Microsoft plans to start testing a new education PC called IQ PC and an education channel on its MSN portal in India next month.
The India launch of the IQ PC and education channel will be the first worldwide. It is part of Microsoft’s “Unlimited Potential” program, which aims to use technology to increase the reach of education, said a spokeswoman for Microsoft India on Wednesday.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced the Unlimited Potential program in April.
The new education PC, which is a combination of online and offline content, is likely to be priced at about Indian Rupees 21,000 ($513). It runs on a Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) processor, and comes bundled with software from both Microsoft and local partners offering educational software.
From the Inquirer:
The IQ PC is not cheap by Indian standards. A number of entry-level PCs are less expensive. However, Microsoft holds that the price will be attractive because of the software, Internet connectivity and other tools and services bundled with the product.
18,
You are partly right…
Are you old enough to remember when MS was GIVING AWAY PC’s??
To schools
To small companies
They have done this many times.
So, then you hae a computer with Nothing but OS… You go get a program..
If work has THIS PC, then I need one like it, to work at home.
I dont know if you are old enough to have seen some of the business practices MS has used.
They Swamped the market with Intel, everytime an advance/threat came around, so people wouldnt LOOK and compare. And then they HAD to be compatible with What was at the Work place. Even tho the OTHERS could do the same, OR better…
1985…Which would you want.
#1 Mono 4-8 bit sound
16-256 colors
SMALL monitor
#2 Stereo sound 8bit, Midi, wavetables…
65-4096 color 16bit depth
SMPTE time based correction to link Audio video
Used TV frequencies to display, and a Monitor that could switch to TV view inputs.
FULL mutitasking
If you picked #2, that WASNT an intell/MS OR Mac/apple machine and was TOP of the line for 15 years, untill about the P 133-200. and the COST was about the same.
17,
I do…
BUT, should I care more then They do?
THEy are letting us, LEAD them into Polution, decadance, poverty, and injustice.
#19 What? You could do almost all those things with an intel and mac based computers in 85 (87 the latest). The fact that you didn’t does not imply that it wasn’t possible. Get better facts!
Charity starts
at homeabroad.So Microsloth is helping kids in India become more computer literate and educated….
What about the underprivlidged children in the USA! This country needs to educate OUR children so they can compete with the rest of the world.
Seems like a ploy by MS to train and recuit cheap labor from outside the US.