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Story: Microsoft effort targets next billion PC users

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Rubbish! This is like flooding an emerging market with cheap heroin.

Once the infrastructure is dependent on MS technology then the prices will increase accordingly. Lets not forget this infamous quote from Bill Gates in 1998:

"Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-212942.html

He was talking about piracy at the time, so the price of Windows now has already increased ;-).

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