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Story: Microsoft licences too expensive, say schools
Posted by: Alan (Monday 16 January 2006, 12:37 PM)
Agree with the comment above about geekware - I would seriously consider educating my own children if I hear my local school was teaching kids using open source software when the simple fact fo the matter is that a huge majority of corporate business uses Microsoft products.
On a similar note, from personal experience it is very difficult for a business to preempt a customers requirements without initial feedback - Microsoft have already changed their pricing structure for certain organisations when they grumbled , and I would be surprised if they didn't respond positively to this request either.
Quite how MS get *such* a bad rap with regards to their income when Gates is so philanthtopic is v puzzling to me....
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Story: Microsoft licences too expensive, say schools
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Micro$oft is too expensive. Wow - what a revelati... Anonymous -
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To install software in schools that isnt... Jon -
MS file formats are the landmine buried for the ki... Olavi Petri
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Name a older Microsoft format that cant be re... Jon
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Microsoft got rich by a combination... Jon -
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Vista already has virus patches and it i... Ron Norris
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I'm in agreement that MS products a... Chris Ferguson
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I agree. Macs are a much less costly option. Of co... Ron Norris
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