[Year 12 IT Apps] VISTA and your school

Sat Mar 7 09:49:05 EST 2009

Counterpart at VicRoads laughed when I mentioned VISTA. We also run XP as a
virtual machine on an OSX platform, it works well here and the milk has not
gone off.

Quick reality check. Faster computing doesnt really equate to faster
thinking. Flasher desktops dont really equate to better looking outcomes. We
are preparing students to be great kids with strategies like play and
exploration. Lets not turn them into smaller versions adults or industrial
fodder. A fun lesson does equate to constructive learning and can even be
done with a stick on the beach sand. (grumpy old man waves stick)

Regards Roland

2009/3/4 Royce Williams <Royce.Williams at billanook.vic.edu.au>

> You have to see the irony.
> Saying use Vista but using an iPhone.
> We buy machines that include the "downgrade" to. XP.
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> Royce Williams
> Sent from my AppleBerry
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> On 04/03/2009, at 8:11 PM, "David Fenwick" <whereisfenners at gmail.com
> <mailto:whereisfenners at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> There are many benefits of vista - increased security, faster access to
> programs with search bar, more control via group policy, better
> moviemaker/paint and it looks better -and it runs well on an appropriately
> spec'd machine.
> Ask the kids what they'd like and most would say vista because they have it
> at home with office 2007.
> Schools should be encouraging use of the latest technology and always
> looking to move forward.
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>  Sent from David Fenwick's iPhone
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> On 04/03/2009, at 6:53 PM, 31Graham Marshall <<mailto:graham951 at ho!
> %20tmail.com>graham951 at hotmail.com<mailto:graham951 at hotmail.com>> wrote:
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> Leave the B....y thing alone. It's a Microsoft Stuff Up.
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> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] VISTA and your school
> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 18:06:51 +1100
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> Our last batch of 2008 laptops came with VISTA. It operated nowhere else in
> the school and caused lots of problems.
>
> For this year's laptops the techs created their own XP image and many of
> those with VISTA are requesting rollbacks.
>
> Regards
> Robert T-A
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jock Garnsworthy
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 3:06 PM
> Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] VISTA and your school
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> Hi all,
> Slightly off topic, but I would like opinions with what schools are doing
> re VISTA.
> It was deployed over the Xmas holidays here and we have had no end of
> problems mainly with very slow speed issues. I am trying to convince powers
> to be to roll back to XP.
>
> Any comments ?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jock Garnsworthy
> Williamstown High School
> Williamstown 3016
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