An educational agency, called the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta), in the United Kingdom has told schools to keep both Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007 out of the country’s schools. The reason, they say, is because it will cost too much money to upgrade the school systems software from Windows XP to Windows Vista, plus there will more than likely be software compatibility issues.
They also don’t see any significant benefits from Windows Vista and Office 2007 that would justify the upgrade. “Our advice is to be sure there is a strong business case for upgrading to these products as the costs are significant and the benefits remain unclear,” said Becta’s executive director Stephen Lucy.
Becta also wants to make students, parents and teachers aware of the free software products that are available for use, including open source products like OpenOffice.org. This action will probably cost Microsoft millions of dollars, but considering their yearly revenue I doubt they will be too concerned.
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Poor Microsoft. I guess it’ll take some time for them to adopt to Vista.
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Jonathon,
Heard of this news. How it is going now? Is the schools starts migration to Vista?
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I haven’t heard anything new yet. If I do I will be sure to update this post.
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