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Silviu Stahie at Softpedia reports
The Internet is abuzz today after Bill Gates published an image on his Facebook page and a link towards his website with the text "15 years from now, most people in poor countries will be able to take classes online." It's a sound goal and it's perfectly doable, but in the image posted on Facebook the operating system is Ubuntu.
As a former Microsoft CEO and the founder of what we call today Windows, you might think that he would pay a little more attention towards his message, but this particular detail has slipped past the radar of the ones posting on Facebook, unless he did that himself, which would be even funnier.
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There will be big changes for you but you will be happy.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by arashi no garou on Monday February 02 2015, @08:40PM
It does appear to be boilerplate. I will say this though, Microsoft is slowly edging towards giving away Windows for free. The upcoming version for the Raspberry Pi will be completely free of cost, Windows 8.1 with Bing and Windows 10 are free for touch devices under 10.1 inches, and any existing Windows 7 or 8 computers will get to upgrade to 10 for free. I hope the trend continues and we will soon see the end of their Draconian activation and licensing schemes, at least on the consumer side (I doubt they'll ever kill the cash cow that is enterprise licensing). It's about time they caught on to what Apple has been doing for a few years now.