UK Schools At Risk of Microsoft Lock-In

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Robert writes "UK schools and colleges that have signed up to Microsoft Corp's academic licensing programs face the significant potential of being locked in to the company's software, according to an interim review by Becta, the UK government agency responsible for technology in education. The report also states that most establishments surveyed do not believe that Microsoft's licensing agreements provide value for money." In a separate report, Becta offered the opinion that schools should avoid Vista for at least another year, since neither Vista nor Office 2007 offers any compelling reasons for schools to upgrade.



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[breetclinton]

I came to know that in UK the schools have announced that they have to study compulsory Miscroft software & gives its knowlege.I think that it is a nice thing as by this students will get the knowledge of it.