India to get Microsoft's IQ PC soon
Everything Microsoft does needs to be momentous. So when it lays down a target for its 'Unlimited Potential' program, it targets not one or for that matter ten million people, but a billion people. Yes, MS aims to see PCs in the hands of a billion people by 2010. To this end, the company is even foraying onto the business of hardware. It will begin selling complete PCs very soon.
The latest news is that Microsoft has unveiled its plans to test its latest education PC, dubbed IQ PC under its Unlimited Potential scheme, with an education channel on its MSN portal in India sometime next month.
The launch of this education channel in India will earn the title of first education channel worldwide. According to spokesperson for Microsoft India, this education channel aspires to use technology to enhance the reach of education.
The new education PC runs on Advanced Micro Devices-(AMD) processor and comes equipped with educational software that comes from both Microsoft and its local partners.
The PC is also an amalgamation of both online and offline content and it will hit the Indian market for Indian Rupees 21,000 ($513).
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