Bill Gates mocked the $ 100 laptop project

Bill Gates, yesterday (March 15), voiced a derision for Google's $ 100 laptop production project and its partners.

This is a project to produce cheap laptops for people in developing countries. This project is being implemented at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with support from Google.

However, cheap laptops like this lack a lot of features compared to typical personal computers. By design, these computers will not have hard drives and software.

"What do you want to do with a computer that doesn't have a drive along with a 'tiny' screen," said Microsoft president and software architect at Microsoft's Government Leaders Forum.

"Hardware is only a small part of the total cost of computing," Gate said. High cost means synonymous with network connectivity, applications and support.

Also at the forum, before commenting on the $ 100 laptop project, Gate demonstrated its new Ultra-mobile Computer product. A compact computer with a 7-inch touch screen. This type of product will be sold for between 599 and 999 USD.

"If you want people to share a computer, share a broadband connection, have an expert to help users, find a really nice computer that you can really read and enter. His text, "Gates said.

Gates thinks these computers can only be shared. This goes against the name and philosophy of the project "One Laptop per child" (Every child will have a cheap laptop). The representative of the project did not have any official comment about Bill Gates' viewpoint.

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