[plug] MS Curriculum at schools and TAFEs ...

[Adam Ashley]

Well speaking as someone who is currently doing one of those courses at ECU
I would have to agree with you. The closest term I can find what this course
covers would have to be propaganda.

Did you know that Windows 2000 supports all hard drive patitions, FAT,
FAT32, and NTFS. At least according to the Microsoft text book.

I find it very hard to sit through one of the classes without correcting the
lecturer or cracking up laughing. But hey, its really easy credit towards my
degree :)

Adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Sharpe [mailto:sharpe at ns.aus.com]
> Sent: Sunday, 22 April 2001 12:13 PM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: [plug] MS Curriculum at schools and TAFEs ...
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to share a concern I have at what I view as both an insidious and
> particularly effective business strategy on the part of Microsoft
> to ensure
> their total dominance in the computer industry for years to come ...
>
> It seems that Microsoft has been very effective at getting parts of their
> MSCE and MSxx taught at schools and TAFEs (and perhaps institutions of
> higher learning) around Australia, and perhaps the whole world.
>
> While this is a legitimate business strategy, it has profound implications
> for the future of the Australian computer industry and our children, in my
> view.
>
> Perhaps the biggest effects are:
>
> 1. It creates a perception among future technologists that there is only
>    one solution, one way of doing things: The Microsoft way.
>
> 2. It creates a nation of technology users, not technology producers.
>    It seems to me that these people are then totaly dependent on
>    someone else's technology, and are far less likely to create their
>    own technology for our future benefit.
>
> Perhaps I am wrong; perhaps Microsoft is the best thing since
> sliced bread,
> and I have a perverse and wicked desire to find something bad in
> Microsoft's generosity in having shared their wonderful technology with us
> all, and if so, can someone please tell me so?
>
>
> Regards
> -------
> Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
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