It is really sad the way Microsoft products are being pushed into schools. Schools appear to be struggling with their finances in UK and not one senior voice have I heard that maybe it is time to push Microsoft out of schools. Imagine how much money can be saved and used in other projects, for example renewing hardware etc. My school recently paid about £10,000 just to renew Microsoft Office licenses. I obtained a site license for Staroffice for free from Sun but the total inflexibility from senior IT teachers was a fight to lose for me as the network manager. I sometimes wonder why some teaching staff are called IT teachers when they know very little of IT but earn high salaries. Education authorities are also to blame as I believe they probably receive a slice of profits from industry by pushing commercial software into schools. There is so much free and fully functional software out there for education. I must repeat, I am so saddened to see so much money from schools being "wasted". M Gural