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Vista Failing "Blackboard" College Courses

Posted by Zonk on from the stay-awake-in-the-back-there dept.

writertype writes "Although Blackboard is used to communicate between students and professors at virtually all of PC Magazine/Princeton Review's top 20 wired colleges, when run under a Vista environment users can see glitches. Moreover, IT departments told PC Mag that if Blackboard is used with Vista plus IE7, students can't communicate via the software. When asked why, Microsoft ... waffled. Blackboard says they'll have a fix in place by summer. Meanwhile, are there any other common college apps that Vista fails to work with?"

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  1. Re:What's Microsoft got to do with it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What is Blackboard?

            * Learning Management System (LMS) software partially owned by Microsoft

    http://www.humboldt.edu/~jdv1/moodle/all.htm
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_ by_Microsoft_Corporation

  2. Re:What's Microsoft got to do with it? by Aqua+OS+X · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It should be noted that, with or without Vista and IE 7, Blackboard is absolute GARBAGE.

    I'm sorry, but after experiencing Blackboard in grad school, I would tend shift my suspicion to the incompetent developers and designers behind Blackboard, not the incompetent developers and designers behind Windows.

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