Microsoft wants to sell more software to a largely untapped market in poor and developing economies and today is laying out a plan — including a $3 software suite — to do so. The company says extending the benefits of technology to the vast majority of the world's population will promote positive social and economic change.
"We are trying to be more comprehensive and connecting the needs for economic development and social inclusion into the mainstream about how corporate America sees advancing the business," Orlando Ayala, a veteran Microsoft executive leading the effort, said recently. "And these things should not be two different things."
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