IP: Excerpt from "Microsoft's Reach in Higher Education"

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

From: "Robert Raisch" <raisch () internautics com>
To: <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 09:54:33 -0400




(Combine this with Microsoft's recent "Bill's Just An Average Joe" campaign
and the failed "Groundswell" marketing plan and it looks like the
spinmeisters are really working overtime.  </rr>)


Excerpt from the Chronicle of Higher Education's
"Microsoft's Reach in Higher Education"


Some fear that Microsoft is using its seemingly unlimited resources to
create a monopoly in campus software sales, and that if it is not somehow
checked, higher education could find itself beholden to the corporate
masters of the very technologies that colleges and universities helped to
create and popularize. Others, looking farther ahead, worry that the
company's expanding reach will eventually lead it to compete with colleges
by retailing educational programs of its own.


Full Article: http://chronicle.com/free/v44/i33/microsoft.htm