My feelings towards Microsoft has mostly been positive, I have had my moments with them. Microsoft has had history on supporting education. Scholarship and other programs that young students excel. Well Microsoft does again with dreamspark.com If your a teacher or student you download any microsoft application on this and there is a lot to choose from. Many of you are saying this is a business ploy and most likely yes. If your a parent of a high school or a poor college student this is a great thing that Microsoft is doing.
As more businesses, schools, non profits, and families watch there budgets they have to look at the current computers they have or forced to consider lower cost solutions like next to nothing or free solutions. A free Linux based OS called “Ubuntu” is now considered with universities and users. A free big name alternative OpenOffice.org is gaining momentum. The free download version of Ubuntu is pretty much turn key OS. It includes pretty much all the apps you need and believe it or not its all free! Ubuntu is probably one of the most user friendly formats of the Linux family. I do agree with Chis Pirillo “I think Ubuntu is here to stay!”