"The British Education Communications and Technology Association (BECTA) released a report last week advising UK schools that there was no reason to upgrade to Vista and Office 2007 at present.
BECTA argued that a "persuasive business case for the level of
investment needed to deploy the products" was needed before they would
change their recommendation.
The reasoning behind the recommendation is as follows:
Office has no "must-have" features for education and is geared
towards businesses and there are concerns over file compatibility with
the new version (despite being able to set Office apps to save in
current 2003 formats by default). Also, schools should not deploy
Office 2007 until it will interoperate with products that use the ODF
file format such as OpenOffice."
Wonderful to hear so much common sense.
Read more here.
And in Computerworld.
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