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In Beijing, Bill Gates announced this week that Microsoft's "Unlimited Potential" initiative will now include offering a software package, the Student Innovation Suite, to governments and students in emerging countries across the world at a price of just $3. This suite, available in the second half of 2007, will include Windows XP Starter Edition; Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007, Microsoft Math 3.0, Learning Essentials 2.0 for Microsoft Office, and Windows Live Mail desktop. However, Microsoft has no takers for its offering yet.
"Why? That's simple: Linux is inexpensive and it works. Unlike North America and, to some extent, Western Europe, the rest of the world isn't addicted to Microsoft's offerings. They can see with far clearer eyes than most Americans that Windows is not the be-all and end-all of operating systems."
sad but true america will be falling behind the rest of the world.
this stunt is nothing - they just want to get their open-xml approved by the ISO and they are doing all they can to show good will.
if it gets voted as a standard then the hammer will fall and microsoft will own the takers of this shallow offering.
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sad but true america will be falling behind the rest of the world.
this stunt is nothing - they just want to get their open-xml approved by the ISO and they are doing all they can to show good will.
if it gets voted as a standard then the hammer will fall and microsoft will own the takers of this shallow offering.