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New Zealand Rejects Office For Macs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the my-word,-how-can-our-students-excel? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The New Zealand Ministry of Education has declined to renew a licensing deal for MS Office on 25,000 Macintosh computers in the country's schools. The Education Minister has suggested that schools use the free alternative NeoOffice. The article quotes a school principal who pointed out that the NeoOffice website warns users to expect problems and bugs: 'That's not the sort of software we should be expecting kids in New Zealand to be using.'" Schools are free to buy their own copies of Office. A blog on the New Zealand Herald site argues that the Ministry should have paid Microsoft this time, but not renewed the deal and instead developed a transition plan to open source.

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  1. F... You Pay Me by packetmon · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In other news, I quote: 'Microsoft wants royalties from the open source world, according to Roger Parloff of Fortune'.

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  2. Hobbits do not need Microsoft... by Marcion · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... who are the real dark Lords of Mordor after all!

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  3. Consequence by lixee · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And somewhere, a chair gets thrown in the bush...

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  4. Re:Expect problems and bugs with OS software? by Tatsh · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Uh...this is Slashdot. How long have you been here?