"Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Wednesday mocked a $100 laptop computer for developing countries being developed with the backing of rival Google at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The $100 laptop project seeks to provide inexpensive computers to people in developing countries. The computers lack many features found on a typical personal computer, such as a hard disk and software.
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"The last thing you want to do for a shared use computer is have it be something without a disk...and with a tiny little screen," Gates said at the Microsoft Government Leaders Forum in suburban Washington, D.C."

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