It's almost the same as when the NFL sold out to EA. M$ is just using this as good P/R and the kids will like it because, hey, it's free stuff. Then again, some of these kids don't even know the potentially disasterous effects of using a M$ OS and neither do their teachers. Who wants to bet in a year, 50% of the software donated is infested with your everyday mal/spy/adware courtesy of their M$ OS.
I know a couple people in my area who still run Win98se and most of them are content with it simply because their machines are patched up and the most they do whilst online is check emails, use their IM service of choice and browse web pages (With Firefox of course). Hopefully, Mozilla won't just abandon these people who really don't need to upgrade to another OS.
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Heart. Then Captain Planet shows up to take care of the bad guys...duh.
The bubble will burst on this purchase. There's too much copyright infringement going on @ Youtube.
I hurriedly read the title and thought Nintendo was planning on making a new type of power glove attachment for the Wii.. Boy was I disappointed.
It's almost the same as when the NFL sold out to EA. M$ is just using this as good P/R and the kids will like it because, hey, it's free stuff. Then again, some of these kids don't even know the potentially disasterous effects of using a M$ OS and neither do their teachers. Who wants to bet in a year, 50% of the software donated is infested with your everyday mal/spy/adware courtesy of their M$ OS.
I know a couple people in my area who still run Win98se and most of them are content with it simply because their machines are patched up and the most they do whilst online is check emails, use their IM service of choice and browse web pages (With Firefox of course). Hopefully, Mozilla won't just abandon these people who really don't need to upgrade to another OS.