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Bill Gates donates Windows to schools project

12/06/2001
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One man who has plenty of money is the head of the software giant Microsoft, Bill Gates. Mr. Gates visited Prague on Wednesday to launch Microsoft's new product MS Visual Studio.NET. While he was in Prague, Mr. Gates also announced that Czech schools in the "Internet for Schools" project would receive the Windows operating system for free - the gift is worth 325 million crowns.

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