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Story: Microsoft effort targets next billion PC users
means 6 times worse then now
Picture the world as it is today. One billion people, most of them with a computer that has something Microsoft on it. Keep in mind the kind of problems we've experienced, experience and will experience with just that one billion. SPAM, botnets, zombies, hacks, cracks, rootkits, identity theft, energy drain, perfectly good hardware thrown away because it's deemed not good enough anymore, waste piles adding up, the BSA coming down hard on firms that have been ill advised by "experts" that somehow still don't have real liability, software patents, DRM, whole historical archives going to waste, tremendous loss of tax money, whole generations getting monkey trained in schools to not look beyond what's in front of them, etc, etc
Now picture adding five billion to that mix (connected to one Internet) and see how joyful web surfing will become. Not to mention the amounts of resources required to produce five billion more PC's every four years or so. Or what about keeping them running?
If I was humanity I would invest my time and money into optimizing and making the best of what I already have. Saves a whole bundle. Certainly in the long run. Spreading durable and energy friendly solutions across the globe that last a lot longer would most definitely help.
So the only thing really required is an attitude change.
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