Microsoft racism

Given the extent to which open source and free software is taking off in the developing world, you'd think Microsoft would be making a big push to provide extremely low cost versions of their software in these areas in order to have some mindshare at all in a new generation of technologists. But they think, "You can give people free software or computers, but they won't have the expertise to use it"...This from one of their Africa managers. Sure we see a lot of countries with political and other problems in Africa and the developing world, but are the people there inherently incapable of grasping new tools in order to build local technology economies? I think not.

It's always nice to see that the competition fundamentally does not get it, though.