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Microsoft to plough $400m into India | |
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| Time: 04:18 EST/09:18 GMT | News Source: BBC | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
Software behemoth Microsoft is to invest $400m (£252m) to expand its activities and promote technology development in India. The announcement comes as Billl Gates, the company's chairman, is touring India on a trip mixing business with philanthropy. On Monday, he announced that his charity, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was to make a $100m grant to tackle Aids in India. Mr Gates said the investments, to be spread over three years, would include expanding the company's software development centre and improving computer literacy in India. | ||
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| #1 By 143 (198.211.47.10) at 11/12/2002 6:00:38 AM |
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$400m "God Bless You"...
He could have just sneezed and got it free. This post was edited by donpacman on Tuesday, November 12, 2002 at 06:04. |
| #2 By 2 (146.186.218.220) at 11/12/2002 8:05:07 AM |
| Be nice.. |
| #3 By 2960 (156.80.64.132) at 11/12/2002 8:54:35 AM |
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I would have preferred to see the money go to US research, but I have no doubt there are political strings attached to this, especially when taking recent news reports about Microsoft and India into account.
TL |
| #4 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 11/12/2002 11:03:00 AM |
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lia36 - Looks like it's your lucky day! Already Microsoft is lowering the prices.
I checked Overclockers UK and they sell WinXP Pro OEM for £97.20. With VAT it's £114.21. Here in the states it's about $140, so that's a whee bit more after exchange, but not too bad. I'm surprised most software in the UK is priced 1 for 1 with the dollar. |
| #5 By 8273 (4.47.64.29) at 11/12/2002 11:50:03 AM |
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#4: If you are referring to Bill Gates giving away money: Bill Gates is a person. Microsoft is a company. Bill Gates owns part of Microsoft. Bill Gates is the chairman of Microsoft. Bill Gates is not Microsoft, and Microsoft is not Bill Gates. If one goes to McDonalds and buys a cheeseburger, the other does not pay for it, feel less hungry, etc (you figure out which one went to the resurant, and which did not). When Bill Gates bought his house, Microsoft did not pay for it.
They are two seperate and different entities. If Bill Gates wishes to give away some of his money, it in no way affects Microsoft. It appears you have been brainwashed by the anti-Microsoft crowd. If Microsoft releases a product that people don't understand, but want to bash anyway, it was not necessarily Bill Gates that had the idea. If Microsoft releases a product with a bug, no matter how small, it was not Bill Gates that wrote the code with the bug in it. If Microsoft releases a product and you do not like the price, no matter how high or low (Windows price too high, IE price too low, so everyone bitches), it is not Bill Gates that decided the price. And if Bill Gates wishes to spend $100 million to buy Pez, it is none of your damn buisness. If you are referring to Microsoft making an investment: Microsoft is a business, they need to continue growing, otherwise they no longer are a business and go bankrupt. Microsoft, if they choose, could fire all their employees, sell off all their ownings, and drop the price of Windows to $5 a copy. There may be thousands more copies sold, but eventually, there would be no new products sold, and would go out of business. Do you realize that if they took that $400M, and used to reduce the price of Windows, for all the copies they have sold, that would decrease the price by less than $1? This is not something that Microsoft does, but many comanies, both Software related and unrelated. IBM puts money into investments, Oracle, Dell, etc. etc. etc. About the only company that has a non existant R&D and makes relativly few investments is Sun, and look where they are. This also goes beyond Microsoft, I am currently shopping for a BMW. Should I yell and complain that the price was too high, and they should not spend money on the yet to be released X3? I could coose to either not buy one, or steal one, just like you can with Windows. Stealing a copy of Windows is a lot easier than stealing a BMW, but just like stealing a BMW, the price of Windows is not enough to justify stealing. Or I could choose to buy something else, I could buy a KIA, just like you could buy Linux. But, then again, you get what you paid for... This post was edited by SoylentGreen on Tuesday, November 12, 2002 at 12:26. |
| #6 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 11/12/2002 12:24:18 PM |
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"if Bill Gates wishes to spend $100 million to buy Pez, it is none of your damn buisness. "
Lol! I know he like burgers, I didn't know about Pez. Tee hee. |
| #7 By 3653 (63.162.177.140) at 11/12/2002 3:02:33 PM |
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lia36 - ever hear of a free market? Are you condoning the setting of prices artificially?
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| #8 By 2 (24.54.153.247) at 11/12/2002 3:57:20 PM |
| Who said India doesn't like us? |
| #9 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 11/12/2002 5:09:44 PM |
| Is #13 mhfm in disguise? |
| #10 By 3339 (65.198.47.10) at 11/12/2002 6:08:21 PM |
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"Oh... Cool... They just stick on, huh? I thought you guys were born with those dots."
No need to flame, I know it's tasteless, but Moozilla's comments were the most enjoyable--I just wanted to give him some competition. |
| #11 By 3339 (65.198.47.10) at 11/12/2002 6:38:56 PM |
| Good stuff, Moo. |
| #12 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 11/13/2002 1:48:08 PM |
| blue, it can't be mhfm because he seems to be in favor of schools. |
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