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Monday, November 19, 2001
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i13/13a02701.htm Some Experts Fear That Ties Between Microsoft and Blackboard Could Diminish Colleges' Choices By MICHAEL ARNONE Charlene A. Douglas isn't surprised that Microsoft wants to get into the booming business of online-software systems for higher education, or that it has recently formed a close alliance with Blackboard, a company whose software helps colleges put their courses on the Internet. "It has always been a given that Microsoft would get into the e-learning arena," says Ms. Douglas, director of dot.edu, a computer-support department of the University of Wisconsin System that provides server-based software for online education. "Why not? They do everything else. It's the last frontier."...
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