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Ditching Microsoft Could Save Education Millions

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the in-britain-only,-though dept.

ElvenMonkey writes "The Times Education Supplement has published the results of a BECTA (British Educational Communications and Technology Association, the Government's ICT agency) study, to be published next week, into the TCO of using Microsoft products compared to using Open Source products. The report shows an average saving of 24% per computer in schools using Open Source over those using Microsoft systems. Now if only the government wasn't insistent on locking schools into using Microsoft in arguably illegal ways."

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  1. yes, let's train our students... by saleenS281 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Let's train our students on software that they'll never see in the workplace so when they get into the real world and someone says "what's your experience with Microsoft office?" they can respond with "uhhh... none?"

    I'm *SURE* the businesses will just change to open source though and spend billions of dollars instead of outsourcing to countries who have experience with microsoft office... I mean... look how hard they're trying to keep jobs in this country right now... oh...