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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