Microsoft’s grant has strings attached?. The company sets up a $10 million fund to support research and development at Canadian universities–with a required course in a Microsoft programming language.
This is nothing new. Standard practice for a decade, and not unique to Microsoft either. Cisco does this as well, and gosh, when I was at Waterloo the labs were stuffed with Sun Workstations and PC’s from IBM and DEC.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
