Are you sitting down?

For one of my many jobs I work 35 hours a week as a computer tech for a school district. and at a meeting a couple of weeks ago we were informed that. microsoft has gotten gererous, they are allowing us and other schools it install windows 98 se or win2k on machines that have a P2 or less, for a cost of $0 yes that is a goose egg, free no cost. I currently have close to 100 machines running 95. I am sure when they started this they were not planing on having schools be able to install it on 100 + machines.

I wonder how much MS is going to write off in donations over this?

And it was a microsoft rep. that told you this or someone in the district?

Didn't know M$ was in the market of giving away OSes they no longer support.:confused:

M$ and HP regularly give away stuff to educational institutions. The reasoning is, if they know the stuff they will carry on using it, buying it and when they end up in a purchasing position then M$ and HP will have the edge.

Just think of the tax write off that donation represents - peanuts.

it was not a ms rep, but we have to use a certain code for it on all of them that are part on the program to keep it with in the bounds of the agreement

Coke dealers usually give you a few bumps free the first time too. :D

M$ isnt as tight as many of you say, I take alot of their surveys and they almost ALWAYS give me some sort of payment for them, such as Amazon.com gift certificates etc