UK Schools At Risk of Microsoft Lock-In

Posted by kdawson on Thursday January 11, 2007 @04:51AM from the apple-for-the-teacher dept.

Robert writes "UK schools and colleges that have signed up to Microsoft Corp's academic licensing programs face the significant potential of being locked in to the company's software, according to an interim review by Becta, the UK government agency responsible for technology in education. The report also states that most establishments surveyed do not believe that Microsoft's licensing agreements provide value for money." In a separate report, Becta offered the opinion that schools should avoid Vista for at least another year, since neither Vista nor Office 2007 offers any compelling reasons for schools to upgrade.

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Talk about vendor lockin by everphilski · 2007-01-11 05:09 · Score: 0, Troll

Now you are talking about locking in your HARDWARE, which costs more than your software...
lol. at risk? by ninja_assault_kitten · 2007-01-11 05:37 · Score: 0, Troll

Give me a break. If the shoe were on the other foot it would be "UK Schools embrace Linux as desktop standard."