Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Becta: Educating Microsoft
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> | Q: Becta also claimed in January that there are six valid alternatives
> | to Microsoft Office that schools should consider: Open Office,
> | WordPerfect Office, Star Office, Lotus SmartSuite, One SE and
> | EasyOffice. But you say each of these provides only about half
> | the features of Office 2007. In that case, how can you recommend them?
> |
> | A: The majority of functionality is not used in schools' typical use.
> | But if schools make use of the additional functionality in Office
> | 2007 then it is a decision for them.
> |
> | Q: How many of these six alternatives would you like ideally to be
> | offered to schools?
> |
> | A: We would like to see these products be freely available. We would
> | like open source to be available as part of the package.
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> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39285734,00.htm?r=4
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> Related:
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> Becta pays lip-service to Open Source
Becta is viewed as corruption ridden micoshat only
house and needs to be disbanded. It has gone out of its way
to operating illegal practices
and has been formally reported to the EU for investigation.
No matter what they do, many staff there need to leave and/or
the organisation need to be disbanded.
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