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an entirely separate note, it's been very interesting to see the recent rise in popularity of low-cost laptops. The Asus Eee PC has obviously been hugely successful but a lot of the credit has to be given to the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. It has been a fantastic venture even if it did not quite deliver on the promise of a laptop costing $100.

The technologies and thinking behind the OLPC project are the real progenitors of the growing range of low-cost PCs you see now. In fact, the only thing that has held back some of these systems has been the insistence on running Linux. The way forward on these laptops is Windows because, if you look at the way people use their laptops, it's often to work on PowerPoint presentations or similar productivity application tasks. For CIOs, the rise of this new portable category provides an opportunity to equip more of the workforce with mobility, and that's a powerful change in its own right.