Microsoft "giveaway"

Microsoft announced this week that in an effort to raise their user base from 1,000,000,000 to 2,000,000,000 by 2015 they will be providing at almost no cost (an average of $3.00 per bundle) their most valuable software to the world's most needy users.  The bundle will include Windows XP, Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007, Microsoft Math 3.0, Learning Essentials 2.0, and Windows Live Mail desktop (Ars technica).  A kind hearted gesture?  In their own version of good cop bad cop, Bill Gates said "All human beings deserve a chance to achieve their full potential," while  Microsoft senior vp Orlando Ayala said, "This is a business, not a philanthropic effort" (bink)  thanks Orlando, we were confused.