Archive for the ‘Vista’ Category

Vista 7 Starts Looking More Like Vista Agony

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Just like BECTA, governments like to brag about “savings” rather than “spendings” in order to justify the passing of tax money to…


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Junior Librarian is putting me in a bad mood

Monday, June 29th, 2009

1) This software is so badly written2) It fails w/ UAC on in Vista3) WTF does a teacher have Vista on a laptop for after COUNTLESS becta guidance. My exact error is a frmCatalogue….


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Microsoft Office vs OpenOffice.org in UK education

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Becta is a government organization focused on technology in education….I mentioned the negative Becta report on Vista and Office 2007, which I also looked at again in preparation….


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Microsoft Office vs OpenOffice.org in UK education

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

…focused on getting their work done. I mentioned the negative Becta report on Vista and Office 2007, which I also looked at again in preparation.


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Re: Love-hate affair BECTA vs. Microsoft

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Well, I am completely mystified. I find Becta’s resistance to MS Vista to be vaguely reassuring and relating to Brussels rather than Washington.


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Becta hails Microsoft progress (vnunet.com)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Sam Trendall, CRN , Tuesday 16 September 2008 at 14:24:00 Software giant to pilot new licensing scheme for schools after talks with education body prove fruitful Government technology body Becta claims to have made “substantial


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Technology tracking: XML-based office document standards

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Also in January, Becta released formal advice to the effect that schools should not upgrade to Microsoft Vista or Office 2007 and that existing users of Office 2007 s…In October 2007 Becta referred Microsoft to the Office of Fair Trading after talks had failed to secure the agreements needed in several key areas….


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Technology tracking: XML-based office document standards

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Also in January, Becta released formal advice to the effect that schools should not upgrade to Microsoft Vista or Office 2007 and that existing users of Office 2007 s…In October 2007 Becta referred Microsoft to the Office of Fair Trading after talks had failed to secure the agreements needed in several key areas….


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Microsoft Vista and Office 2007: full report

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Becta has conducted a review of Microsoft’s Vista and Office 2007 products. It draws conclusions on whether to upgrade, how to upgrade and…


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Why aren't schools using Open Source?

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

I was aware of the BECTA reports, but I’ve just been doing a little calculation….Now let’s look at the BECTA OSS report….The BECTA Vista and Office report says that upgrading Vista (there were no numbers for Office)…Therefore, using the number from BECTA studies, we’d save £680m (or be able to invest that much more in our schools) _every_ year….


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