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- UK tech agency warns schools on Vista licensing
- UK tech agency warns schools on Vista licensingBECTA are getting there....They now need to lobby even harder for platform independence in curriculum software. There is still so much dependence on the MS infrastructure that it is difficult for schools to project a vendor-neutral image.BECTA should move to a stance...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Vendor Neutrality, Microsoft Corp., tech agency, Vista Licensing, Microsoft Windows Vista, BECTA
- Discussion threads 2007-10-29
- UK tech agency warns schools on Vista licensing
- Becta, the British government's agency for education technology (does the U.S. have anything remotely similar?), is telling schools not to sign licensing agreements with Microsoft, Ars Technica reports. At issue: Microsoft's School Agreement program, which offers admins the comfort of a single license for all Windows PCs in the...
- Tags: School, Agency, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Becta, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Office Suites, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- Vista closed for UK schools
- Microsofts Windows Vista and Office 2007 dont offer enough new features to warrant the investment, a British educational survey advisory group found, advising schools against upgrading. Although Microsoft touts huge improvements in its new software, The British Education Communications and Technology Association BECTA report cautions against it,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Office, Digital media, Digital music, Web browsers, UK School, BECTA, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsofts
- Blog posts 2007-01-12
- British debate over IT standards
- In the US, we have No Child Left Behind. In Britain, seemingly always moving in lockstep with America, there's the Every Child Matters agenda. And as NCLB has imposed substantial information systems requirements on school systems, ECM also requires a steady flow of information about student performance between schools, local...
- Tags: BECTA
- Blog posts 2006-09-20
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- Open source is not a vertical
- Open source is not a vertical“Becta’s open-source posturing is exposed as a sham, empty spin ...... covering ‘business as usual’ political sleaze,” WOW typical OSS wacko language. Ole Man, DonnieBoy, fr0thy2, Linux user, etc., I can hear them coming like a band of rabid dogs ready to bite and attack.In...
- Tags: open source
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- No Office 2007 for UK classrooms?
- InformationWeek is reporting on new complaints from the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency BECTA against Microsoft's lack of support for open standards. Now that OOXML has been adopted as an ISO standard, it's hard to say where this will go; however, the agency makes the case for steering...
- Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- UK education agency nixes OOXML
- Office Open XML – the open standard with a trademark in its name – might be good enough for the International Standards Organization but it's not acceptable to British schools, InfoWeek reports. "In the context of the education system," lack of truly open standards in Office 2007 "can result...
- Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Agency, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Office Suites, Software, Emerging Technologies, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Report fuels OpenOffice vs. OOXML debate
- Report fuels OpenOffice vs. OOXML debateThe funniest quote from the Burton report:ODF is primarily focused on content and presentation domains, and it is far less useful for scenarios requiring advanced structure and behavior capabilities."That just make me laugh!! Can they give one scenario or example??? What exactly are "advanced" structure...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), OpenDocument Format, OOXML, Microsoft Corp., digital-rights management, OpenOffice
- Discussion threads 2008-01-17
- About-face: Microsoft makes new Vista SP1 test build public
- About-face: Microsoft makes new Vista SP1 test build publicBritain Doesn't Want Vista In Their Schoolshttp://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205602879Guess they are smarter than we are.Off Topic WARNINGI know its off topic but the word needs to get out.DO NOT use Network Soultions Verisign for Domain searchs.If you go to the site to check on...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., SP1, Microsoft Office, new Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1
- Discussion threads 2008-01-11
- Technology adoption and force majeur
- In the decade or so before world war I most European police agencies were focused on the suppression of political dissent - the 1898 Rome conference that ultimately led to the founding of Interpol in 1923 was, for example, dedicated to improving international co-operation for...
- Tags: General, Enterprise Policy
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Japanese schools may convert aging computers to Linux
- A recent article in OhMyNews.com discusses the results of a conference in Tokyo at which educators recommended converting aging computers running Windows 98 and ME to Linux. About 400,000 such machines exist in Japans public schools and either cant run more up-to-date operating systems or the cost of upgrade...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- A conversation with Doug Belshaw
- [Guest Blogger Stewart Mader, Atlassian - makers of Confluence and Jira. His blog can be found here.]Recently, I had a Campfire conversation with Doug Belshaw, a teacher of History and ICT at a successful comprehensive school in Doncaster, England. Among other things, Doug writes http://teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk/, a blog filled with...
- Tags: Wiki, blogging, Ive, blog
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Microsoft responds to DOT ban on Vista, Office 2007
- Microsoft responds to DOT ban on Vista, Office 2007So trueMy company has adopted a policy of no Vista and only giving XP to those who absolutely can't function without the XP operating system (we have a single accounting app that isn't ported yet). Other than that people get Ubuntu...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Quality, PRODUCTIVITY, government, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., standards, Microsoft Windows XP, Forced Upgrades
- Discussion threads 2007-03-06
- European Commission vouches for open source
- European Commission vouches for open source*sigh*Two words for you - "Exit Costs."If you had read much if any of the report you would have noticed that that was the crux of the matter with regard to change. They also note that there are always short term "exit costs" when changing...
- Tags: Linuxen, open source, worker, European Commission
- Discussion threads 2007-01-16
- UK push for universal access to Internet
- The British government all students to have access to the Internet outside of school, schools minister Jim Knight proclaimed recently, reports ZD Net UK. Knight, speaking at the BETT educational technology show in London on Wednesday, said that a taskforce including Dell, Intel and RIM was being...
- Tags: Internet, Jim Knight
- Blog posts 2007-01-12
- Open Source Costs in Schools
- BECTA, Britain's school technology authority. finally released its study of open source costs last week. This was a real study, dealing with real people, real systems, and real issues over an extended period of time. The results are worth reading carefully. Here are some bits taken...
- Tags: OSS, open source
- Blog posts 2005-11-01
- U.K.-funded initiative to push open source
- U.K.-funded initiative to push open sourceThe times they are a changin'Microsoft is losing its grip in Europe.U.K. IT in schoolsThe U.K., in the public education market does seem to be taking an open minded approach to IT. The U.K. goverment has set a company to provide important information resourse...
- Tags: open source, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-04-07
- Wolverhampton City Council Mobilises Learning to Give Students Access to Anywhere, Anytime Education
- Like any local authority, Wolverhampton is committed to ensuring that children within its schools benefit from the best teaching and learning experience possible. This commitment must be delivered in the context of limited resources, competing pressures, and increased autonomy at an individual school level. However, after one of its staff...
- Tags: Education, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Corp., Mobile Device, Toshiba Corp., Pocket PC, Advertising & Promotion, Benefits, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Hardware, Marketing, Human Resources, Software
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