The poor school teachers and students in TN are scheduled to get "help" from Microsoft: http://newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IE320050822083241&Page=3&Tit...

Education ought to be vendor neutral, focused on general principles and in any event, it should never become a marketing program for private entities. Governments and school authorities should avoid the traps and offers laid by private vendors whose main aim is merely to earn profits.

Similar exercises are afoot at other places too:

http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20050815/market04.shtml http://www.microsoft.com/resources/casestudies/casestudy.asp?CaseStudyID=171...

We need to send in our concerns to the authorities involved here, and so please post any useful information/opinions connected with these issues. The vendor nuisance should abate for good.

-Ramanraj