{"id":5605,"date":"2008-10-16T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-10-16T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T07:30:00","slug":"microsoft-to-target-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/5605-microsoft-to-target-schools.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to target schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Golden is filling a newly created post of vice president of Education Products Group as Microsoft increases attention on schools and colleges where rival Apple has long promoted its Macintosh computers.<\/p>\n<p>Golden was hired to lead Microsoft&#8217;s global &quot;education vision and strategy execution,&quot; according to the Redmond, Washington-based colossus.<\/p>\n<p>Golden&#8217;s background includes time spent as a deputy secretary in the Pennsylvania Department of Education and as an executive at Pearson School.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year Microsoft announced it is pouring an additional $235 million into its Partners in Learning program that provids software and computer training to students and teachers worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=140520\"><strong>Microsoft discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft on Tuesday appointed its first education general to lead the US technology giant&#039;s push to get its software into the hands of students and teachers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}