[Offtopic] MS Office $75 for uni students

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Same here .. this round, two teachers are getting Macintosh computers.
Parallels means they can even run an OSX, Ubuntu and XP image. Ubuntu is
nice for a very tightly firewalled and secure system for online banking etc.
I need to get my head around if we can share the images around etc.

Regards Roland

On 06/03/07, Cameron Bell <bell.cameron.p at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
>
> Yes I did read about the Vista Licensing and Virtual machines. We were/
> are thinking of recommending Macs when teachers need to rollover, to run
> both OS's.  Pretty sure DET will need to get the Enterprise version
> anyway so from a school point of view it wouldn't be a problem. Can
> still run boot camp, but it would be nice to be able to run parallels.
> Cameron
>
> Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
> > True, and I wonder how they would go with the battery of gold standard
> > "Authentic Windows" checks. I promote the idea that MS are worth what
> > MS is due and this includes nearly everything that MS makes. As a rule
> > we don't openly bag MS, dont steal or encourage stealing software,
> > provide and support realistic alternatives to MS.
> >
> > A father called asking if he daughter really needed to buy Office,
> > Publisher, FrontPage etc etc. He was ticked pink to discover that we
> > had some free alternatives that would suit their family needs. She had
> > been spinning yarns including how how much and how badly she needed
> > Vista (badly advised boyfriend), a new video card (for secondlife we
> > discovered) and the computer moved from the family room to a bedroom
> > (hmmmm) ..
> >
> > Say has anybody noticed that the licence agreement with Vista means
> > that only the premium versions (~$700) can be use with virtual
> > machines such as parallel, VMWare and virtual PC? Very sad to read and
> > looks suspictiously like a marketing than a security ploy.
> >
> > Regards Roland
> >
> > On 06/03/07, *Mark Scott* <msc at luther.vic.edu.au
> > <mailto:msc at luther.vic.edu.au>> wrote:
> >
> >     Sounds like a hoax only because Microsoft's track record of doing
> >     something so sensible is not great.
> >
> >     95% of Uni students use an illegal copy of Office. Most of the $75
> >     would
> >     be pure profit for the company.
> >
> >     Mark Scott
> >
> >     -----Original Message-----
> >     From: offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au
> >     <mailto:offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au>
> >     [mailto:offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au
> >     <mailto:offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au>] On Behalf Of Michael
> Walker
> >     Sent: Tuesday, 6 March 2007 10:41 AM
> >     To: Information Technology Teachers' Offtopic Mailing List
> >     Subject: RE: [Offtopic] MS Office $75 for uni students
> >
> >     >>> Charles Clarke< cfc at beaconhills.vic.edu.au
> >     <mailto:cfc at beaconhills.vic.edu.au>> 03/06/07 08:55am >>>
> >     >Smells very like a scam to me.  Has anyone verified this... apart
> >     from
> >     the claims on the site quoted?
> >     >Cheers
> >     >Charlie
> >
> >     It was in yesterday's Age with quotes from Microsoft
> representatives.
> >
> >
> http://www.theage.com.au/news/home-office/uni-students-get-office-2007-f
> >     <
> http://www.theage.com.au/news/home-office/uni-students-get-office-2007-f>
> >     or-75/2007/03/05/1172943327075.html
> >
> >
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