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Microsoft: A Multi-Touching Moment!

May 28, 2008

Microsoft today demoed the new multi-touch portion of their next gen operating system Windows 7 yesterday at the All Things Digital conference. For those not familiar with multi-touch, it was brought into the main stream by Apple’s iPhone in June of last year and lets users concurrently use multiple touches on their device’s screen to perform commands [...]

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What is going on with the OLPC Initiative?

May 18, 2008

What a love/hate relationship! Nicholas Negroponte, One Laptop Per Child’s chairman, and Microsoft Corp. announced on Thursday that Microsoft would be offering Windows XP at a $3 license fee to be installed on the XO laptop. Targeted at $100, the XO laptop currently costs just under $200 and needs to meet critical mass to drop the [...]

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