Microsoft to expand education program with $235.5 million
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Microsoft is putting more money into an initiative that provides technology and computer training to educators and students around the world -- acknowledging that it also wants to help its own business by getting more of them to use its products.
In Berlin on Wednesday, Bill Gates is expected to announce a five-year, $235.5 million investment in the company's "Partners in Learning" program. The company is expanding the program beyond kindergarten through 12th grade to colleges and universities. Microsoft says the new money will bring its total investment in the program to about $500 million over 10 years.