Microsoft handover computer hardware to Bosscha

Good news for you guys …PT Microsoft Indonesia and the Office of the State Minister for Research and Technology would hand over a hardware completed with a 40″ monitor to Bosscha Observatory in Lembang, West Java. PT Microsoft Indonesia`s public relations manager, Mona Monika, said here Monday the hardware would be handed over to Bosscha observatory on Thursday in the observatory`s meeting room.

The high rate of pollution and densely populated areas had made people, including those in West Javanese, no longer able to observe space objects clearly, she said. It also happens in the surrounding area of Bosscha Observatory, a historical building with the biggest telescope in Southeast Asia since 1928.

She said that the hardware would be equipped with web-based worldwide telescope application, a new breakthrough to learn astronomical world for free, with a three dimensional graphic and enriched with e-learning contents. Bill Gates, Microsoft Corporation Chairman, had presented this application demo on the Government Leaders Forum event in Jakarta.

By the presence of the hardware, Bosscha visitors were expected to enjoy many outer space objects which were recorded in real-time from around the world, she said.

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