How do you keep growing the marketplace for Windows and Workplace desktop software program once you already have cornered in excessive of 90 percent with the market? 1 way would be to develop the marketplace. That's Microsoft's goal with its expanded Unlimited Potential program,
Office Enterprise 2007, via which it plans to sell a $3 bundle of Windows XP Starter Edition, Office Home and Student 2007,
Windows 7 Home Basic Key, Windows Live Mail Desktop and several educational products to governments in developing nations for distribution to local students. Microsoft's motivation (besides the unstated goal of competing along with the Linux-based 1 Laptop Per Child initiative)? "This is not a philanthropic effort,
Office Professional 2010 Key, this is a business,
Office Home And Stude/nt 2010 Key," said Orlando Ayala,
Windows 7 Pro Product Key, senior vice president at Microsoft's emerging segments market development group in an interview with Reuters. Microsoft is betting it can double the number of (paying, not pirated) Windows users, to more than 2 billion by 2015, with these kinds of programs. What do you think? Pipe dream? Or doable goal?