[LINK] Microsoft on the outer of schools funding

[Tom Worthington]

At 09:42 AM 4/12/2008, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>... the learning curve may be a bit higher than an out of the box 
>Winders install. ...

I had a small class of federal public servants working quite happily 
on Linux within a few minutes. They were using Firefox instead of 
Internet Explorer. But because they spent most of their time using a 
web based application (Moodle) it didn't look unfamiliar to them: 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2007/10/how-to-create-on-line-university_26.html>.

What I expect I will see is a change in attitude, where the computer 
goes from being an expensive machine which needs constant effort to 
keep working like an old car, to something inexpensive and reliable, 
like a telephone handset. The computer is just a gateway to the 
applications and data which like on the 'net.



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