This afternoon at the Microsoft Government Leaders Forum in Washington, D.C., Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates announced plans to expand the Microsoft® Authorized Refurbisher (MAR) program as part of the company's efforts to broaden digital inclusion and bring the benefits of technology and technology skills to one-quarter billion people by 2010. Previously available only to nonprofit refurbishers in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Australia, the program will be expanded in 2005 to allow participating governments and commercial refurbishers worldwide to reinstall Windows® 98 and Windows 2000 operating systems and Microsoft Works 7.0 onto donated used PCs destined for schools, charities and nonprofit organizations.
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