{"id":248,"date":"2006-05-23T10:27:34","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T04:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/05\/23\/microsofts-flexgo-software-eyes-emerging-markets\/"},"modified":"2006-05-23T10:27:34","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T04:57:34","slug":"microsofts-flexgo-software-eyes-emerging-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/05\/23\/microsofts-flexgo-software-eyes-emerging-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s FlexGo software eyes emerging markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SEATTLE: <\/strong>Chip makers and PC firms aim to increase PC usage in the developing world with a new flexible payment program <strong>to lower the initial costs <\/strong>of buying a computer, the companies said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft, the world&#8217;s largest software maker, said it is leading a group of technology companies in offering the first-ever &#8220;pay-as-you-go&#8221; computers in <strong>Brazil, India, Mexico, Russia and China <\/strong>over the next several months.<\/p>\n<p>Using <strong>Microsoft&#8217;s FlexGo<\/strong> software technology, a customer can buy a computer loaded with the Windows operating system then purchase prepaid cards or pay a monthly subscription fee at a cost similar to using a computer at a <strong>local Internet cafe<\/strong>, Microsoft said.<\/p>\n<p>When the usage <strong>time ticks down<\/strong>, a customer can go online or to a local retailer to buy more minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/report.asp?NewsID=1030592&#038;CatID=5\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE: Chip makers and PC firms aim to increase PC usage in the developing world with a new flexible payment program to lower the initial costs of buying a computer, the companies said on Sunday. Microsoft, the world&#8217;s largest software maker, said it is leading a group of technology companies in offering the first-ever &#8220;pay-as-you-go&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8,3,12],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-india","tag-internet","tag-microsoft","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}