Poor nations on front line of operating-system wars
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Experts say countries from Brazil to Russia to China are shunning Bill Gates' proprietary Windows operating system in favor of open source systems such as Linux, mounting a major challenge to Microsoft's global dominance.
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Intel is working on another laptop aimed at serving the developing world.
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Throughout the European Union, governments are grappling with how to guard against terrorist attacks. Meanwhile, Indian IT services companies have beefed up efforts to protect data.
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Greeted with fanfare and kudos when its prototype PC was shown off by Nicholas Negroponte and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan more than two years ago at the World Symposium on the Information Society in Tunis, the One Laptop Per Child project is now beset by waning orders and competition from commercial vendors that threaten to sideline the nonprofit effort.
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&quot;When the elephants fight,&quot; they say in West Africa, &quot;it&#39;s the grass that gets trampled.&quot;. The Linux community is apparently beginning to identify with that proverb, as it watches Sun Microsystems and Red Hat
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Europe is struggling to kick the Windows habit. Eurocrats make a lot of noise about moving to Linux, but the actual migrations are few and far between. Bruce Gain reports from Paris.
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The "digital divide" between rich and poor countries is growing with developing countries still far behind in the use of broadband internet, the UN trade and development agency has warned.
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particularly in the Far East and Eastern Europe - that they would rather give away copies of Windows XP to people who may
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The digital divide between rich and poor  countries is narrowing as mobile phones and Internet use become  more available, but the developing world still lags far behind,  a United Nations report said on Wednesday.
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An offensive against one of the last pockets of resistance to the proliferation of the personal computer into every corner of our lives will be launched this week by two high-tech giants, Microsoft and Intel.
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The debate is centered on whether cheap laptops are the best way to improve education in the developing world.
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A computer developed for poor children around the world, dubbed 'the $100 laptop,' has reached a milestone: Its price tag is now $200.
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By Moises, Christian  Heavy workloads, traveling and working from home have made many workers dependent on laptop computers.
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'No natural monopoly' The Globalisation Institute, a European think-tank run by advocates of the free market, today went on the offensive against Microsoft, calling on the EU to require all PCs to be sold without operating systems.â¦
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At least a dozen Microsoft software applications and operating systems affected. Also: The talking worm.
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More PCs run the alternative OS, but many will end up with a pirated version of Windows, report says.
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Computer failure points to the challenge of aging equipment.