@chrismessina what makes you think that k-12 schools are ever exposed to Windows and/or Office licensing fees outside of the baked in cost to the OEM? I don't think that your assumptions are right. Especially since the K-12 strategy is occasionally negative margin or low margin for msft/google and based on a race to the bottom, i.e., just trying to get k-12 student mindshare and to build affinity towards a particular brand/technology choice.

@weiluenhuang well yes, it's also a long play — get kids hooked/familiar with Windows early on, and then they carry those preferences into the rest of their lives. Microsoft "donates" millions of dollars worth of software via non-profits like Techsoup to schools to kick off this long term effect. This is the proverbial "gateway drug". It's not a negative margin market if it means that you're getting highly lucrative business down the road.