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Bill Gates wants to get rural Vietnam online:

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has provided the donation, alongside $3.64 million worth of Microsoft software, towards a $50.6 million government initiative that is expected to provide basic computer skills and the benefits of the Internet to 760,000 people in the Southeast Asian country.

The project will see 12,070 Internet-ready computers set up at 1,900 public libraries (65 percent of the country's total) in 40 of Vietnam's most disadvantaged provinces. The price of access to the computers, which will be available for local Vietnamese to use until 2016, is varied with some free to use and others reportedly set to charge 50 percent less than typical local Internet cafe rates.

Donating software is nice, but you need hardware too. And the best form factor is the tablet, and since Microsoft still doesn't have a Windows 8 tablet on the market, I say he buy and donate some Android tablets and some iPads.

After watching the video of Gates Jory posted last week, I'm sure he totally be down with the idea.

I mean, he says it himself in the video, that tablets and technology is "no longer his area of expertise".

Do what's right, Bill.

A human would answer that question when asked. Tablets are a Windows phenomenon? Who knew?

*I stole that title from this isn't happiness. I laughed my ass off, it was too perfect.

Video: Apollo: The best of Adobe's Flash and Reader - I'm still trying to wrap my head around this Apollo program. Merging Acrobat Reader and the Flash Player? I guess this is an example of a technology where I need to see a practical application to understand the reasoning behind it.

Video: Gates on Apple's 'huge disadvantage' - whatever works for you Bill. You do what works for you and I'll go pre-order my iPhone.