Microsoft to Build High School in Philadelphia, PA

LynchMan writes "According to the The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia is too be the home of a Microsoft funded High School. While having an inner city public school with a large tech fund ($46 Million) will be a great asset to those young students interested in technology, is the Philadelphia School District selling out to Microsoft really the only way to achieve this? Especially with all of the negative press that Microsoft has had recently, is this an attempt to do some good and help out those who cannot afford private school? Or is Microsoft just making sure that they secure themselves another generation of coders/admins/users? This being the first school of it's kind, will a Microsoft high school be coming to a town near you?" This looks very much like the Microsoft buses that toured from school to school a couple years back, but much larger and much more stationary.

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Re:Blinded By Hate

[Sphere1952]

"When Apple did this, it was praised and lauded as good move..."

I remember praising it as a good move for getting market share, however, I was wrong.

Re:Blinded By Hate

[AstroDrabb]

That is because Apple is not a convicted monopoly. MS is doing this to strenghten their monopoly. Apple donates computers and software. MS is donating a project manager. Guess what solutions this "project manager" will demand? MS ONLY solutions. This is a way to entrench themselves more. These tactics are not much worse then what Hitler was doing. Hitler would only let you read approved books, Hitler wanted one race of people who all thought the same. Just as MS will only let this school used "approved" technology (read MS ONLY) and will try to produce a region of students who will look to MS only. Linux is much better as a network server OS then MS. Will this MS "project manager" recommend that? IMO, Mac OS X is a much better desktop experience, will the MS "project manager" reccommend that? No. I lived in the Philadelphia area for 15 years before moving to Florida. I know if I was still there I would protest this crap. I only hope others there will do the same. Sadly, in this country money makes the rules, and we know MS has a lot of that to throw around. Why doesn't MS just donate some PC's and software? Most poeple wouldn't care about that. By "donating" training and a "project manager", MS will have complete control over what technology that school uses, over every choice that school makes regarding technology. This is the reason people get pissed. MS is not doing this to help out the school, they are doing it for their best interest. With MS it all comes down to control, if they cannot have contorl they don't want any part of it.