Travis Riddle wrote:
Whoops that's not per year, that's since the inception of the program. Sorry, my bad, 7 Billion since 1994. I guess they do suck.
Like RP said... 7 Billion in charity is a good thing.
I'm sure that if I had made 70 Billion in the last 10 years I would have donated at least 7 Billion too.
Also, don't forget that at least a portion of their charity is often donated in the form of MS software, rather than cash, so it doesn't neccessarily even cost MS as much as it's worth on paper. Arguably, since some of these donations are just licenses and not even media (see the third example) it costs them practically nothing or even ends up making them money when the beneficiaries then later purchase complimentary MS software.
Examples: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2000/Jan00/DonationPR.asp http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2000/Feb00/EncartaWApr.asp http://www.unbf.ca/its/faculty/software/msdistribution.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27878.html
