Venture Beat
Microsoft teams with President Obama, gives $1 Billion to help set up public school kids with mobile devices
Microsoft and President Barack Obama are on the same page when it comes to virtual education. Microsoft will spend $1 billion to give kids in the country’s 14,000 public school districts access to affordable mobile devices provided by Microsoft partners like Dell, Hewlett Packard, Lenovo, and Acer, who are also cooperating on the initiative.
The $1 billion was offered in conjunction with President Barack Obama’s ConnectEd Challenge. The agreement is purely a Microsoft initiative and has nothing to do with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.