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New Zealand Rejects Office For Macs
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.
Neo office is HONEST and tells you you may have problems.
Microsoft lies to you by not telling you you may have problems.
The truth, ALL SOFTWARE will give you problems. Office on the mac can be very flaky. Many many mac users hate it for a reason.
Good grief, has the principal even tried Neo Office before he dismissed it out of hand?
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