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The tag 'initiative' on WindowsForum.com covers a range of projects and campaigns, from corporate technology sharing to grassroots activism. One thread discusses Facebook's Open Compute Project, an initiative to share hardware designs for improving website infrastructure. Another covers a prank by the .WAV Collective, who affixed a Windows logo to an Apple Store as a light-hearted initiative. A third thread reports on India's $35 laptop initiative aimed at students, running Linux. These examples show initiatives in technology, corporate strategy, and public stunts, without a single focus on Windows or Microsoft.
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A group of pranksters disguised themselves as construction workers on Saturday in order to post a Windows logo onto the facade of a future Apple Store in Hamburg, Germany.
The .WAV Collective posted a video of the prank taking place, as noted by MacNN. In the video, a fake construction crew...
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Palo Alto, California (CNN) -- In the technology world, a form of breaking bread can involve sharing hardware schematics.
Facebook invited reporters, hardware makers and rival internet companies to its headquarters to debut a new initiative on Thursday for improving website infrastructure...
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India Unveils 'Laptop' Costing $35
India's Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal unveiled a touchscreen tablet that he claims they will be able to produce for just $35. The device is being aimed at students, and seems to be taking the One Laptop Per Child idea and running with it...
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