ARTICLE: Every AZ student to get Microsoft Office

[Matt Alexander]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, der.hans wrote:

> Am 30. Aug, 2001 schwäzte Jason so:
>
> > Hopefully giving the product away to schools will get Microsoft the
> > same results that Apple had with giving away computers to school.
>
> I hope not. Apple did quite well with that. That's where all these macntoy
> boys came from. I know plenty of them. If mac had coupled that with hardware
> that was affordable they might still be in the game.
>
> Get the kids when they're young and you can have them for life. I'm certain
> that's the basis for many marketing strategies.

Yep.  Worked for the cigarette companies too.  ;-)