[School-GNU-Linux] Report against Windows Vista and Office 2007 in Schools

BECTA recently published a report titled, "Microsoft Vista and Office 
2007 Final report with recommendations on adoption, deployment and 
interoperability." BECTA is the UK Government's lead agency for 
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in education 
(www.becta.org.uk).

For all those who are involved in situations where we are pitching 
against Windows Vista and Office 2007, especially in schools, this 
report can be very useful. It can be downloaded from:

http://publications.becta.org.uk/download.cfm?resID=35275

Three of BECTA's recommendations are below. Enjoy!

Arun
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* the new features of Microsoft’s Vista product added value but did not 
justify early deployment in the education sector. The deployment costs 
were seen as high and the benefits were far from clear

* Office 2007 contained no ‘must have’ features and Microsoft should 
develop an underpinning business case to justify deployment in the 
education sector there were interoperability concerns regarding Office 
2007; and Microsoft should urgently provide ‘native’ support for the 
OpenDocument format (ODF)

* educational ICT suppliers should ship computers for the educational 
marketplace with a choice of office productivity suites on the desktop. 
Ideally, this choice should include an open-source offering

Regards
Arun Eapen

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