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Creating a problem and then partially solving it makes people believe competitors have the problem

Posted 10-05-2010 at 07:40 PM by William (Dthdealer) (Whaling the FOSS)

Tags australia, discount, education, microsoft, schools

I asked the staff of one of my local primary schools why they were installing new computers and throwing out the old ( a few years ) ones. It confuses me when their previous units are perfectly fine for the educational needs of primary school students, but yet they decide they need new ones. I was given a few answers:

To 'stimulate' the economy
The old ones were getting slower
Microsoft offered them an educational discount

I live in Australia, and I have never seen a computer that...

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