Microsoft Takes On the OLPC

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday April 19, 2007 @04:22AM from the close-to-free dept.

A number of readers sent us links to a BBC story on Microsoft's plan to provide the "Microsoft Student Innovation Suite" for $3 to governments around the world, for use in schools. The suite contains Windows XP Starter Edition and Windows Office Home and Student 2007, along with other educational software. To qualify, a government would have to provide free PCs to schools. Microsoft's stated goal is to double the number of PCs in use (and running Windows). An unbiased observer might wonder about an agenda of slowing the OLPC project and the spread of open source in general.

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Re:XP starter edition != education by Doctor-Optimal · 2007-04-19 04:35 · Score: 0, Troll

I guess Microsoft doesn't want these schools to teach any programming classes. Yes, because third world schools have so much programming instructional talent.

This bundle is great for someone just looking for a good typewriter. As opposed to what the schools REALLY want, which is?

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