[LINK] Microsoft pushes Vista for school laptops

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Michael Skeggs mike at bystander.net wrote:
> 2009/2/9 Bernard Robertson-Dunn <brd at iimetro.com.au>
> 
>> Microsoft pushes Vista for school laptops
>> <SNIP>
>>
>> "The familiarity benefits of Windows can't be overestimated. The
>> retraining that would be required to transition to open source far
>> outweighs the benefit," Jackson said.
>> </SNIP>
> 
> 
> Interesting counter point would be if school kids get Linux/open office they
> might not view the effort to learn MS products worth the bother, when they
> can just download the software they have become familiar with.
> I also like the implicit acknowledgment that there is more benefit with open
> software, but the retraining is a hassle. So by extension kids coming into
> school would be best served with using OSS from the get go, to realise the
> benefits admitted by Microsoft.
> ;-)
>

Apparently the kids in Catholic schools are getting Macs and the teachers are 
getting dual boot (MAC/Windows) systems.

It also appears that after the successful debut of the 701 eee netbook running 
linux, later models are shipping with MSWindows. There is the option of eeeBuntu 
and the other Linux distros.

Marghanita
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