View this article at: http://www.macnn.com/news/20800 Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003 3:05pm WP: Microsoft's Big Role Campus Noting Microsoft's Big Role Campus, The Washington Post reports that the company has "lavished $500 million over the past five years on research and teaching projects at 1,000 schools, funding efforts by 6,000 academics in computer science, electrical engineering, linguistics, biology, mathematics, graphic arts, music and other fields...Microsoft, for its part, acknowledges that its donations are about business development as well as philanthropy, but that it is a win-win situation for everyone."