Microsoft Designs a School :(

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by thegathering

Well, I'd start talking about how FIRST was a bad idea if the Segway started crashing frequently even when it was being used normally, a requirement of FIRST was that you rode one whenever you were building the robot or at competition, and you were only allowed to ride the Segway with Segway approved accessories excluding accessories that improved the Segway's usage.

What if these Segways were given to you for free and other companies developed software that worked on these Segways and didn't crash.

There is nothing stopping these kids from running Linux or any other operating system. Every thing that they are getting is free. I think that any one on here would like to get a laptop for free even if it was Windows based.

Bottom line Microsoft is giving these kids an amazing opportunity. Like Microsoft or not they are designing a program that will be very helpful to these kids. I believe that any one arguing needs to realize that you are judging a companies ability to develop leaders (essentially what Microsoft's curriculum is designed to do) based on their ability to develop software.

Microsoft has developed leaders. Bill Gates obviously being the most well known. Gates is a self made billionaire. No way to argue that point. Give the program a couple of years and I bet these kids who most likely wouldn't have gone to college will be getting accepted to top schools all over the country.