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...teaching fellows for Computer Science 50: “Introduction to Computer Science” each received a free tablet PC laptop from the Microsoft Corporation last Tuesday—a donation valued at more than $70,000 in total...
Malan said he reached out to representatives from Microsoft last spring...
According to Shafeen Charania, the director of marketing in Microsoft’s education product group, Microsoft agreed to donate a tablet PC to each of the course’s TFs “to facilitate better teaching outcomes and help students effectively visualize the concepts of computer science...
According to Charania, Microsoft has not yet decided whether they will continue to work with Malan in coming years...
Apple sold some 2.5 million Macs last quarter, the most ever. Cook argued that customers flock to Apple simply for its products. He also credited Apple's snappy advertising campaign and seductive retail stores, where more than 400,000 people enter daily. He even gave a backhanded thanks to Microsoft, saying that the company's much maligned Vista operating system drove users to Apple. "I think it's fair to say that Vista hasn't lived up to everything Microsoft has said it would," Cook claimed. "And consequently it's opened doors for a lot of people to switch...