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Microsoft Would Put Poor Online by Cellphone

Publication:NY TimesDate:Jan 31 2006
Reporter:John Markoff

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It sounds like a project that just about any technology-minded executive could get behind: distributing durable, cheap laptop computers in the developing world to help education. But in the year since Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory, unveiled his prototype for a $100 laptop, he has found himself wrestling with Microsoft and the politics of software.




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