Microsoft wakes up to new Africa, reacts with youth empowerment initiative

[Kabweza]

In short, while Microsoft was concerned with selling more licenses through its corporate channel partners, unconcerned about the punitive pricing (which had many resorting to pirate copies), Google was making money in a different way; it was sending Adsense cheques to publishers on the continent. Small Adsense amounts yes but enough to demonstrate what computing and the internet is; lowered barriers and new opportunity.