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Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Microsoft Selling Prepaid PCs In Brazil

Microsoft is officially in the business of selling PCs. The company partnered with Brazilian retailer Magazine Luiza to create a PRE-PAID MODEL for selling cheap computers ($351) to poor people in Brazil. In a trail conducted last year, the companies sold 1,000 machines in four days. The way the model works is that customers buy pre-paid cards to rent the PC, but once the rental fees equal the purchase price, the buyer takes ownership of the system. More tests are coming in March. The official launch is scheduled for September 2006. Anyone have photos of this?

Comments:

Anonymous Nilson (n_rolim@yahoo.com.br) said...

There goes the photo (the store site which is announcing as temporarillyl unavailable): http://www.magazineluiza.com.br/produto/index_produto.asp?Produto=1350520&linha=IN&Setor=MICR

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 12:48:00 PM  
Blogger Mike said...

Thank youk, Nilson! I've added the picture, and the link.

Mike

Wednesday, January 18, 2006 7:54:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The page linked from here, well it says the PC comes with LInux installed ;)

Wednesday, January 18, 2006 10:03:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The picture and the link point to a different computer. It's another "low cost" PC but comes with linux and it's not prepaid.

Thursday, January 19, 2006 5:02:00 AM  

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