Microsoft To Start Dumping Surface RT To Schools For $199

onyxruby writes "In a move that will remind many of Apple in the '80s, Microsoft is going to start dumping Surface RT computers to educational institutions. In an effort to try to gain mindshare for their struggling Surface RT platform, Microsoft is giving away 10,000 Surface RTs to teachers through the International Society for Technology in Education. They're also preparing to offer $199 Surface RTs to K12 and higher education institutions. The strategy of flooding the educational market was quite successful for Apple. Unfortunately for Microsoft, today's computers require management and the Surface RT presents significant management challenges in terms of the inability to join the computer to a domain or available management tools."

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Re:Because that worked so well for Apple?

[h4rr4r]

Because kids avoided Apple computers like the plague afterwords. Sure it helped for the time they were selling them, but a couple years later those kids remembered apple as the uncool computers the teachers made you use.

Re:Huh?

[jedidiah]

Your argument is like a McDonald's sign: Billions and Billions sold.

        Doesn't say anything about quality.

        Doesn't say anything about value.