Microsoft wants to double PC users to two billion

Found on The Inquirer on Wednesday, 18 April 2007
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Software King of the World, Sir William Gates III told a throng of Chinese in Beijing that he wanted to double the number of computer users to two billion by 2015.

Vole plans to offer a software package called Microsoft Student Innovation Suite for $3 to governments purchasing and giving Windows-based computer to primary and secondary students.

This would be the alleged "past its sell by date" software that Vole wants the Western world to abandon in favour of Vista which it will not be issuing it at home after the end of the year. Orlando Ayala, senior vice president at Microsoft's emerging segments market development group said that the move was not philanthropic.

Vole was fed up with seeing its software pirated and sold at a fraction of the price of a genuine product, he said.

So, let's sum that up: if there's enough piracy, prices will drop. Sounds like a plan.