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 > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail > doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss