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Microsoft releases UP Yours® a ground breaking technology that you'll feel for a very long time. Say it with a smile, Third World! It's UP Yours!]]>May 8th 2008 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/
Where is Apple's version of something like this? Oh, that is right, they don't want the poor to have one of their products, tarnishing their good name.

You people and your hatred of anything that does not have the Apple logo on it is pathetic.]]>May 8th 2008 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/
It seems that no matter what MS does, people love to bash them. They release a good competitor product, people bash it. They release an initiative to help poor people communicate, and people bash it.

Microsoft has donated millions of dollars of software to students worldwide. What has Apple done? As a student, I can download Windows Server anda lot of other software for free.

Of course, Apple fanboys will find a way to bash that too.]]>May 15th 2008 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/
Peace.]]>May 8th 2008 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/May 8th 2008 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/May 8th 2008 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/May 8th 2008 7:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/
Everything you write has anti-MS hatred behind it, or defending Apple. There was no joke in that, it is just the usual bash Microsoft any way possible.

Besides, I always jokes were supposed to be, you know, funny.]]>May 8th 2008 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/
On top of that, cheap OLPC's with free OS's would make a better choice with more potential for helping low-income students, especially if paired with low-cost or free wi-fi.

MS's concept sounds nice, but they are putting too much effort into something that should be much simpler and is feasible now. Once again they promise too much, and will deliver too little, too late. ]]>May 8th 2008 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/May 8th 2008 10:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/
What about former Eastern-bloc countries, where food is not so much of a problem but finding access to education is? This would be a great way for people to easily get on the internet for people to learn - you don't need a full computer, but something that plugs into the TV.

Or, quite simply, what about those people that do not have much disposable income, and just want to explore the world they live in. They cannot afford a full computer let alone a plane ticket to go to those places, and this is a tool for them to use.

As for food, shelter, medicine, etc., Bill Gates gives away billions for doing such thing, and is criticized for it. He is just doing it so people will like him. He is just doing it because he wants to sell more Microsoft software, and so on. A few years ago Larry Elison was asked if he was going to give away his money like Bill has. He never answered the question, but he did find a way to criticize Gates because Bill was not giving away money to charities that Larry liked.

It is easy to sit back and yell at others for doing something good, when you yourself do nothing. I help build playgrounds for children, clean up trash off the sides of highways, among other things. But they do not fall into the food, rent, clothing categories, so I guess those works are useless and should not be done.]]>May 9th 2008 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/May 9th 2008 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/May 8th 2008 11:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/May 9th 2008 12:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/08/microsoft-increases-focus-on-fone-cellphone-project-for-the-poo/
This encouraged the division of labor, and the creation of wealth.]]>May 9th 2008 8:29AM