Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Microsoft, Branding Students
>
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>| Hence, some of the strategy behind Microsoft?s announcement last week. They
>| are releasing a beta of their free online workspace dubbed Office Live
>| Workspace as part of the Live@edu for students. Unfortunately? about seven
>| years late. Students are using Google docs, Wikis, Facebook, blogs etc.
>|
>| They don?t have it very clearly stated, but the bad news is you can?t edit
>| your online documents if you access them from a public computer that doesn?t
>| already have MS Office installed. Less control, less creativity. You?re given
>| a Hotmail account which adds to Microsoft?s bottom line. Oh, the university
>| can brand Hotmail as their own with a ?powered by Windows Live Hotmail?
>| underneath the university logo. ?UC Berkeley - Powered by Windows Live
>| Hotmail? just doesn?t sound right.
> `----
>
> http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/jzemlin/2008/03/13/microsoft-branding-students/
How many ways can we write "lock-in"?
>
>
> Related:
>
> Principal Resigns at Phila.'s School of the Future
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| District officials admit to being taken by surprise last month, when Shirley
>| Grover announced her resignation for personal reasons as principal of the
>| Microsoft-backed High School of the Future.
> `----
>
> http://www.kyw1060.com/pages/798387.php?contentType=4&contentId=789006
>
>
> Gates demands better schools as Gates-backed school closes
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| But just before the Gates editorial appeared, word broke that one of
>| the hi-tech schools in the heart of Silicon Valley will be shut down
>| because of a lack of funding and students.
>|
>| The board of directors behind the High Tech High in Redwood City
>| -- the home of Oracle -- last week voted unanimously to mothball
>| the school less than two years after it opened.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| Parents and students broke down in tears during a meeting about the
>| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>| school, saying they were promised a five-year commitment to keep the
>| project going.
> `----
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/27/gates_school/
>
>
> Welcome to college, here's your Windows Live account
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Microsoft, in an attempt to spread the word about Windows Live, has struck
>| a deal with 72 colleges all across the world. And what is this said deal?
>| The colleges have agreed to let Microsoft host their students'
>| e-mail accounts.
> `----
>
> http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/4/23/3719
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