Re: Microsoft Stole my Mother....
I recently emailed M$ regarding their "student license" packs because we wanted to get Windows XP Home/Professional for our son using this scheme (you can currently get Windows 2000 Pro for 44.00GBP). I got a reply yesterday that said, in essence, "We will NEVER be offering Windows XP Home/Professional on student license; the only product we will be offering on that scheme now is Office XP Standard". I said "OK" BUT what about Access???? You don't get Access in the Standard Edition and that's what a lot of students need Office for isn't it? They haven't replied yet..it seems my reply has been passed further up the food chain :-) Well- Mandrake 8.1 and StarOffice would be fine anyway...we just thought about XP because he uses it at school and has special needs--so some familiarity with the interface etc would have "helped" a little. Paul
Just had a conversation with Sun in California and it seems some of the talk about pricing structure for schools might be a little premature. Can't say more at the moment but don't panic, I don't think it will be a problem :-) -- IanL
Just had a conversation with Sun in California and it seems some of the talk about pricing structure for schools might be a little premature. Can't say more at the moment but don't panic, I don't think it will be a problem :-)
Well let's hope it's not too premature. The beta of v6 was very impressive, but... IMHO Sun only have one chance to get this right, not just for schools but in general. There's got to be a significant difference in pricing to open the doors for them otherwise just aren't going to bother. Offering better support etc.. just won't wash. It seems like like they've one for the throat with v6, let's hope they slit it getting it out of the door m:
Well- Mandrake 8.1 and StarOffice would be fine anyway...we just thought about XP because he uses it at school and has special needs--so some familiarity with the interface etc would have "helped" a little.
I'm not a great expert at the Linux stuff fairly new - but I dont know if youve tried Redmond for your son - its is very very xp like - a friend and I tried it and it kept crashing on his - (but no one else seems to have the same complaints) - have a look or ask other Redmond users (there is a copy on this months Linuxformat) I asked about it no replies yet from other users. We have got Redhat 7.2 at school (primary)and at home and you can really get it to look very windows like if that is what you want - if you have user level - depending on your sons ability in kde etc he can play around and get the desktop etc to look how he wants - there are load of options I'm a great believer in doing up desktop to suit yourself I dont know the age of your son - my 14yr old (non techie) has got laod of desktop rubbish I hate using his M Ali, B Lee, etc. I have a hard job reading the icons hope thats help Ronald __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
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