ARTICLE: Every AZ student to get Microsoft Office

[Craig White]

Brian Cluff wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
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Qwest bandwidth - shouldn't affect those who don't user Qwest.

Craig