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As is stated in the article, Microsoft is simply (1) filling the void left by Macintosh, and (2) allowing colleges and universities to obtain high quality technology at a lower cost.

With the increasing costs of campus computing, and the budget tightening that is happening on campuses all across the country, academic computing administrators are going to look for the best technology for the least number of dollars. The move of Microsoft into the academic community as discussed in the articles does not worry me.

Finally, I raise the following question: How much of this is a concern about Microsoft becoming too involved in academia versus this concern simply being an anti-Gates and anti-Microsoft movement?

Food for thought.

-- Robert B. Tallitsch, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL. (posted 4/22, 3:50 p.m., E.D.T.)
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