Microsoft launches 'Pay As You Go' PC trials
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
Microsoft is continuing to pursue its vision of 'a PC on every desk in every home.' But it's not going the $100 PC route. Microsoft's latest method for achieving that end, FlexGo, takes a page from cell-phone and cable playbooks.
Cut-rate PC/hardware Windows XP Starter Edition bundles aren't Microsoft's only solution for bringing computing to the masses.
Microsoft unveiled a new financing program designed to make PCs more affordable to emerging-market customers on May 22, the day before the kick-off of its annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Seattle.