MS education push

[Trent Shipley]

Let's see, this is paid for and organized by Microsoft's huge infinitely
funded marketing department.

Who wants to donate the 80 hours/week that some ace marketeer is getting
paid six digits to do (with a staff) for Microsoft?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Alan
> Dayley
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 8:28 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: MS education push
>
>
> 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
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