Apparently unable to break into the payday loan market, Microsoft is going into the rent-to-buy scam: Pay-As-You-Go Computers Are Coming.
Poor people in poor countries have to come up with a big down payment, and then buy time on the computers under the FlexGo system.
It is schemes like this that keep poor people poor, while making obscene profits for the companies.
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