Microsoft has launched an inexpensive educational software package available to governments that purchase and supply computers directly to primary and secondary students for their personal use at home and for schoolwork. It will be released in the second half of 2007 and will be sold for mere US$3 to qualifying governments. The product release is part of the expansion of Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential program. The package includes Windows XP Starter Edition, Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007, Microsoft Math 3.0, Learning Essentials 2.0 for Microsoft Office and Windows Live Mail desktop.Microsoft founder and Chairman Bill Gates has made this announcement in Beijing, China and said that the expansion of Unlimited Potential will focus on three areas: education, innovation, and jobs and economic opportunity. This means that that will help bring social and economic opportunity to about five billion people who are not yet realizing the benefits of technology.
"Over time, students won't need to have textbooks. The cost of (the tablet) will be less than buying textbooks, and yet the experience of using it is dramatically superior to what you would have had with a paper-based experience," Gates said.
Microsoft and others are working hard to reach out to the developing world through lower-cost technologies such as cell phones and television to provide basic computing and educational opportunities, according to Gates.
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