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School Software Licenses Under Review

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the excuses-to-sit-in-a-circle-and-spend-money dept.

Tony writes "ZDNet asks the question: 'Does Microsoft Campus give good value for money?' Its good to see a review of the dominant software, but the review is likely to lead to no or little changes, so the real question would be 'Is the review worth the money being spent on it?'."

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  1. You Godless Commie Pinko Bastard! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Trying to deprive the children! They needClippy to show 'em what's good and right and true in this heathanistic world. I spit on you and your goat.

  2. Re:Don't usually complain but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You claim to be a Slashdot reader, but first you actually read the article, and then you can't think of anything to discuss on the subject of whether Microsoft software is worth the money?

    You're no Slashdotter. Get back to Technocrat and leave us to our childish flamewars.

  3. Mein Gott by The+Bungi · · Score: 5, Funny
    What a stunning, in-depth analysis of this ever-delicate issue. I'm back from reading the first two chapters, which seemed to go on and on, yet nonetheless were completely absorbing. Tomorrow I shall read the other nine, with a good cup of joe and some trail mix to keep me in top form. This is certainly one where we'll be calling "RTFA" for days to come!

    Certainly my heartfelt gratitude go out to the Slashdot crew - especially ScuttleMonkey, bless his heart - for linking to such an enthralling tome of uncompromising educational policy.

  4. Re:Deceptive advertising by pimpimpim · · Score: 4, Funny
    The ones that imply, for instance, that Microsoft software helps children become creative musicians, when Microsoft doesn't have any music creation applications.

    I beg to differ.

    P.S. Some explanation on how that was made can be found here.

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    molmod.com - computing tips from a molecular modeling
  5. That's funny... by Wordplay · · Score: 2, Funny

    so the real question would be 'Is the review worth the money being spent on it?'.

    Usually when I wonder this, it's referring to PC Magazine.

  6. Re:Deceptive advertising by A+Dafa+Disciple · · Score: 3, Funny

    Man, that flash video tickles me pink. It reminds me of the time when my family's computer (a Packard Bell 386) had a "talking calculator" application. I found the .WAV files for the numbers it spoke and then I used Sound Recorder to cut off the consonant and vowel sounds and saved them to their own separate .WAV files. I then used those to make my own words. Being the juvenile I was, probably around age 10 or 12 at the time, you bet that the first words I made were, of course, curse words.

    You can imagine how overjoyed my father was to turn on the computer and also hear that, rather than the computer greeting him with the usual Windows chime, it was cursing at him.

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    Falun Dafa is good!