MS education push

[Alan Dayley]

I am mostly an embedded systems programmer but I also have responsibility for 
Windows stuff too.  As such, I get some of the MS e-newsletters.  This link 
caught my attention in the Office XP newsletter today.

It appears MS is pushing education as a big market:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/ons/backtoschool.htm

To sell MS products to the education market, they are educating the market.

They are offering free half-day "seminars" all accross the country.
http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=WestRegion

Phoenix event is Sept. 21st.  Friday morning.  2929 N. Central.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/events/USA/ENU/detail/ED101805416.htm

(I could not get to the description of the seminar.  It was a VBScript link 
and Konqueror didn't know what to do with it.  I will have to fire up Windows 
and go get the description.)

These are the very things we need to be doing.  "Free seminar on FREE 
software tools for schools."

Alan