David King

London, UK

trying to encourage the way forward

Typical ignorant Americans -- but you cannot totally blame Microsoft or its employees, the US government is responsible for the educational system in the USA, which is so pathetic that US students are years behind European students, because in the USA there is a xenophobic attitude which goes into education, so that students learn nothing of the world beyond the USA, except maybe a little about Canada, which to the Americans is the rest of the world. The USA refuses to convert to the modern metric system, refuses to understand the cultures and languages of foreign countries, and even President Bush at one time was clueless about anyone in power outside of the USA. Microsoft needs to set up its own education program for its employees, to bring them up to the standards that the rest of the world uses.