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Britain Advises Against Vista, Office 2007 for Schools
An anonymous reader writes "The British government's educational IT authority has issued a report advising schools in the country not to upgrade their classroom or office systems to Windows Vista or Office 2007. According to this InformationWeek story, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency says costs for Vista and Office 2007 'are significant and the benefits remain unclear.' Instead, Becta is advising British schools to take a long look at Linux and open source suites like OpenOffice.org."
Erm, we *do* have nuclear weapons.
== Jez ==
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In a related story, an agency of Her Majesty's Government advised against poking a sharp stick into one's eye.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Is that like...DRM?
I don't always use unix-like operating systems; but when I do, I prefer FreeBSD.
> Erm, we *do* have nuclear weapons.
...sorry, this kind of turned into a rant about my Virgin Media cable TV service. Carry on.
Yes, but they're British nuclear weapons. Before you could launch them, therefore, someone would have to come out and knock on the silo door to say that the power cables were never actually connected during installation, so they need to dig up the street to connect them--but first they have to get permission from the city council, which takes three weeks, and then six weeks later after the work's finally done, your actual launch technician is a toothless yob named Nigel with an Exeter City FC tattoo, who promptly says "Well, it's a nuclear warhead, innit? More than my job's worth, pushing that button." He then re-disconnects your power cables and fucks off for another six weeks while you call the same number over and over again trying to get someone else to come out, but only reaching "Kenneth" in Mumbai....
No, it's more like WMDRM.