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Rob Beard wrote: > > On 17/06/10 12:51, James Andrews wrote: >> >> My daughters school (Uffculme) use MS software pretty much exclusively. >> I was encountering consumer resistance from her as we were using Open >> Office at home and it is subtly different to the MS programs. >> >> So when I got her a new laptop, it was MS Windows and I bought a >> "student edition" of MS Office suite >> >> Even so there has been a couple of occasions when she has wanted to have >> MS Publisher or some other Billyware just because that's what the >> teacher was using. And the student edition doesn't include every single >> obscure program in the MS line up. > > > Yep, IIRC they supply the basics in the Home/Student edition of Office, > and don't supply Publisher. When I *cough* bought a Windows 7 Upgrade But does include "OneNote", which appears to be a new thing. Other than that there isn't really muchg to distinguish it from OpenOffice.org. > *cough* for the wife on the student offer she was also offered a cheap > Office 2007 Pro package. I think it was something like £60. I gather Maybe they don't use Access or Publisher in schools in the North West US > this is open to anyone in education or anyone who has kids in education. > Still cost's an arm and a leg for the software though if you're on a > limited income, not to mention the cost of making sure your PC is up to It's not the sort of money even people who can afford it like to casually throw away either. Especially if Microsoft still havn't got it to be able to spell "colour" correctly. (Or "localisation" for that matter.) This is something OSS often appears to manage rather better than proprietary software. > the job of running it (not everyone has a nice new fast PC to run Office > 2007 and it runs like a dog with 512MB Ram on XP). Sixty quid will buy you quite a bit of RAM.
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