[wellylug] Schools not renewing MS office licences

[Joe Cook]

On Tue, 29 May 2007 11:46, Alex Thomson wrote:
> Anybody caught this this morning?
>
> http://www.stuff.co.nz/4076857a28.html
>
> Summary:
> Govt. is not renewing some MS office licenses on around 80 school Macs,
> saying "use NeoOffice" (mac OO.o equivalent) and save taxpayers $2.7M.
> That's the good news- the bad news is the principal featured is an
> idiot: "That's not the sort of software we should be expecting kids in
> New Zealand to be using.".   Grrrrr
>
>
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 A quote fromthe Xtra news article.
"NeoOffice website warned users to expect problems and bugs"

If this statement is true then the only diference between MS Office and 
NeoOffice is that NeoOffice comes with a warning. Thats one more service and 
it's free.

Joe