[thelist] The Mac Market (was: Mac runtime for java update?)

[Greg Strange]

on 7/26/00 2:08 PM, Eric Engelmann at eric at geonetric.com wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> M$ in their cunning business strategy infused the education market
> with literally hundreds of reduced price or free PCs.  No blame to the
> educators, merely making a statement of fact.
> 
> --> Microsoft sells PCs? Now *that's* a cunning business strategy, since
> I've never heard of M$ selling them!

Microsoft gave nearly $200 million dollars to schools in 1998 and 1999 for
the explicit purpose of buying PCs only.

I'll find an URL somewhere.

Greg
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Is it advantageous or disadvantageous?
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