Microsoft extends its education partnerships in Arab countries
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| During his visit to the Government Leaders Forum - Arabia in Abu Dhabi,
| Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates announced a number of partnerships aimed at
| driving IT development in Arabian countries. According to the Microsoft Press
| Centre, these include strategic partnerships between the Mohammed Bin Rashid
| Foundation and Microsoft to promote IT research via a "knowledge platform",
| and with the Dubai Cares organization to establish a further education
| programme for teachers and parents. Microsoft will also provide free email,
| messaging and online storage facilities to 650,000 high-school students in
| Oman in an arrangement similar to one the company recently set up with the
| Jordanian Universities Network.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/102623/from/rss09
Also new:
Agenda du Maire
http://www.paris.fr/portail/accueil/Portal.lut?page_id=4945&document_type_id=5&document_id=7926&portlet_id=10571
http://www.groklaw.net/newsitems.php
[PJ: Uh oh. According to this page, Bill Gates and the Mayor of the City of
Paris are meeting today, after some agreement between them was signed.] -
Agenda due Maire, Paris
Is Billy really retired? How many politicians will he 'bribe' and how many
products will he 'dump'?
Recent:
Yoohoo! EU Commission! Are you watching?
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| Here's some repulsive news from Microsoft, in an article on Yahoo!
| News titled, "Microsoft pledges cash for IT in developing world" but
| which I would more accurately, I think, call, "Microsoft Finds New Way
| To Be Anticompetitive"...
|
| Please remember this day, next time someone tells you how
| philanthropic Mr. Gates is. Monopolies these days not only crush
| competition, they're willing to crush a charity to make a buck. I
| would say any apparent cooperation with OLPC, therefore, is just for
| show, folks. Those "technical" difficulties won't be solved, I figure,
| until this new market is glutted with Microsoft on Intel Classmates
| and Asus EEE's, loaded with XP, that old-fashioned operating system,
| and none of their laptops can do for those children what the OLPC XO
| can do. P.S. Children don't need training to use an OLPC XO. It's
| designed to *not* need it. I hope OLPC patented everything before they
| show Microsoft a thing. For real. Otherwise, someday we'll be looking
| for prior art to overturn a Microsoft patent or two.
|
| Yoohoo, EU Commission! Are you watching these maneuvers?
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080123114324664
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