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Story: Microsoft licences too expensive, say schools
Posted by: Chris Ferguson (Wednesday 18 January 2006, 12:25 PM)
I'm in agreement that MS products are priced far too high for either the home or educational environment.
I also feel that schools shouldn't feel the need to teach purely on the MS or MAC platforms. The actual platform doesn't matter - the principles are pretty much the same.
Having a curriculum based entirely on MS products can be compared with telling driving instructors that all new drivers must only learn to drive in a >2001 automatic Ford Focus, and that no other make, model or generation of car is to be used for lessons or the driving test. So what happens when the driver goes out to the "real world" and discovers that there are in fact other models out there? And that some might have (Shock horror) MANIUAL gearboxes?
Now apply that same logic to MS and the IT industry... OMG! There's an Apple? There's Linux? There's OpenOffice? Shock Horror!
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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
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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 -
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
