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Dell, Microsoft To Launch Product RED Computer via Poverty News Blog January 24th, 2008 at 20:57

image from Reuters By Daisuke WakabayashiSEATTLE, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Dell Inc and Microsoft Corp are teaming up to release a Product Red computer, donating up to $80 for every one sold to fund AIDS-fighting drugs in Africa.Dell will start selling two (Red) laptops and one desktop running Microsoft Windows Vista on Friday. The two companies will donate $50 for a laptop and $80 for a desktop to the Global Fund, which finances health programs in Africa.(Red), founded by U2 singer Bono and Bobby Shriver, works to develop co-branded products with companies such as Motorola Inc , Apple Inc and Gap Inc, which then donate a portion of the proceeds for antiretroviral drugs.Microsoft said it expects "several hundred thousand" (Red) Dell PCs to be sold in 2008. The PCs, designed in part by Bono, will...