Strange Things Happening in UK Schools
Published by Sierra Monica B., on October 30th, 2007 2:41 pm, in the categories: News
It seems that in the UK schools Microsoft makes the rules when talking about the software used on PCs, like the Office Suite.In order to prevent the use of software coming from its competitors, Microsoft made agreements with the government to establish the essential points of academic licensing.
The business practices used by the company raised a lot of concerns because the schools under these deals are obligated to pay fees for every PC they use without taking into account the fact that not all of these devices run software from Microsoft.
On the other hand, the schools don’t take action against this because Microsoft is offering tempting discount plans and so no one objects.
Recently, someone from the UK government started to advice schools’ representatives not to sign deals with Microsoft anymore, informing all about the company’s strange practices.
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wow. i feel so bad for the schools. if the institutions that teach our children aren't even intelligent enough to see past a marketing scam, then we are in trouble. bad microsoft, picking on that poor retarded little school, bad. do you buy everything that a tele-marketer sells you? well maybe if you had a nearly endless supply of taxpayers money, and an over-eager attitude to "spend it for the children" then you would.