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Story: Microsoft licences too expensive, say schools
Posted by: Anonymous (Monday 16 January 2006, 1:58 PM)
I agree with the opendocument approach and as such advise all clients to seriously consider adopting a office software that supports this.
MS Office does not (and most likely will not) support this as they have developed their own, proprietry format. Hence I'm very pro OpenOffice.org.
I agree that MS as the desktop OS is still the only real choice (other than macs), but hopefully in the next 5 years, Linux will mature even more and be a serious viable alternative.
As far as servers go, unless the application demands MS, mine all run Linux...
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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 -
The way ahead is simple. Just adopt OpenOffic... Anonymous -
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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Agree with the comment above about geekw... Alan
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Microsoft got rich by a combination... Jon -
I agree with the opendocument... Anonymous -
Jon,
My college stuff on Works 3.1 Stop... jono
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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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I don't know whether the Competition beaurocrat in... Chris Goodman
