Bill Gates largesse knows no bounds…the $3 “Student Innovation Suite” sounds fantastic value but then as Joe Wilcox succinctly puts it:
Out of the gate, the student suite has a big handicap: No takers.
Precisely. The evisceration of this cynical plan proceeds apace:
Microsoft would have to pay many countries $3 a student to take the software—and probably much more. I’m not assigning a negative value to Microsoft software, just realistically assessing that there are many obstacles.
What no-one has yet asked is rather more mundane. If, as Joe suggests $3 is a price not worth paying…then how does Microsoft think for one minute that customers are going to cough up the $13 per $1 spent on Vista for product development?
