ARTICLE: Every AZ student to get Microsoft Office

[Brian Cluff]

Wholy CRAP!!!  is this going to be a horrible setup for all the schools.  I
feel for all of them!

Not only are they stuck with MS, but they are all going to run what they
will soon find to be a very uncomfortably slow, over the network version of
the software, and they will also be at the mercy of everyone else on the
same machine.  If one person manages to crash their software really good.
everyone else will suddenly wonder where the application that they were
working on suddenly went.

$8.16 per student actually ends up more expensive than the deal they had
before that was $40ish/machine for the same software suite with the added
bonus that you could apply the money you put into the program to purchase
individual titles that you could keep if you got out of the program.

This program sounds like a really good way to slow down all the bandwidth in
arizona, I'll bet we all "feel" the day this goes online.

Brian Cluff
(Pissed off school employee)

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