Re: MS helps Higher Ed again!

[Wandered Inn <esoteric@denali.atlnet.com>]

It's a catch 22 in many ways.  My problem with Microsoft's approach is
that the expectation is the same as there marketing approach, all and
only Microsoft.  Then you get the watered down approach to training.  I
have yet to meet a MS certified eng. who could explain to me the inner
workings of the NT kernel.  When I was working on my Masters at Emory,
we had to write an operating system...

"Eric M. Bennett" wrote:
> 
> Steve Cohen wrote:
> 
> > All of these incidents are
> >standard corporate operating procedure, perfectly legal, and totally
> >disgusting.
> 
> I agree in general, but on the other hand sometimes you have to wonder
> whether or not it's better for the university to take the money than to
> refuse it and not hire someone or improve its equipment.  When I was an
> undergraduate at Penn State, the head of the Computer Science department
> told me I could not take an intermediate-level programming course because
> the department didn't even have enough resources (both instructors and
> computers) to adequately teach the course for people whose majors required
> it (as a biochemist, I obviously did not require this course).  Would it be
> better if I had been able to take the course due to some ethically
> questionable corporate donations?  That's a hard question to answer without
> knowing the full ill effects of the donation.
> 
> Of course, when it's a widespread and systematic campaign affecting large
> numbers of universities instead of just being a single incident at one
> institution, it's much harder to defend.
> 
> --
> Eric Bennett ( http://www.pobox.com/~ericb/ )
> Cornell University, Field of Biochemistry, 377 Olin Chemistry Lab
> 
> We have increased our prices over the last 10 years [while]
> other component prices have come down and continue to come down.
> -Joachim Kempin, Senior Vice President, Microsoft Corp.

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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric@denali.atlnet.com

You mean you paid MONEY for Service Pack '98????