"Consumers may not be buying Surface RT tablets, but that isn’t stopping Microsoft. The company will offer $199 Surface tablets for K-12 schools and higher-education institutions, according to the company
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Microsoft’s Surface RT has been met with a lukewarm welcome from the market, in part because of its $399 price (in fact it is $499), as well as its incompatibility with older versions of Windows.
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About 10,000 teachers attending the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference in San Antonio will receive free Surface RTs
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Google has been pushing its $249 Samsung Chromebooks into over 1,000 schools across the country, according to the company, and recently said it would supply Google Apps running on Chromebooks to 10 million students across the country."
Microsoft unloading Surface RT units at $199, offering schools major discount
In late May, Microsoft put the tablet on sale at its own TechEd conference, with Surface going for $100 and Surface Pro for $399. Now, Redmond is extending a significant discount program to educational institutions
This is slightly better than HP's TouchPad, that was just dumped for $100 & $150...
And then HP dumped its CEO, too...
And in all this "hoopla" nobody talks about unified, shared and free, educational "apps".
That should be web apps. Not just web based (i.e. PhoneGap), but real, common, public, HTML5.
Why is not schools curriculum, as well as books, available online, and free?
Public schools (in US) are paid by public tax money, and most efficient is to just make materials public.
