____/ John Locke on Monday 18 June 2007 16:00 : \____
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:59:56 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> "Last week Microsoft announced that a study carried out on its behalf
> by Wipro Technologies found that European schools prefer Microsoft
> software to open source alternatives."
>
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>
> I would suggest that they load up a few PCs with Linux in each school
> and ask the kids what they think. You might be sureprised.
Maybe that's what they did. They let every child use LFS, which Port 25 says
is the "market leader". They then added some "state-of-the-art games" such
as TuxPaint.
It's a 'study', not a study. As one analysts who worked for Microsoft said,
companies /buy/ this data and it's intended to be incomplete.
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