Translated to English, but this is quite a quote: > Funnily enough, during the conversation, he kept making new financial offers, including what Microsoft woul

Translated to English, but this is quite a quote: > Funnily enough, during the conversation, he kept making new financial offers, including what Microsoft would add to the price, for the school department, for example. They continually became cheaper by a million, another million, another million, and later a dozen million. That's how important the symbol of the renegade state capital of Munich, internationally perceived as an IT stronghold, was to Microsoft. This was Ballmer though, not gates. Maybe Gates had a separate visit.