[Offtopic] MS Office $75 for uni students

[Cameron Bell]

 From what I read around the forums and mags, it often seems that Mac 
users are on their own wherever they are. I've gained the impression 
that Apple customer support isn't the best. (A recent report named Apple 
as one of Australia's top companies for customer complaints - mainly 
about iPods). Seems if you have a real problem you only get a result 
from Apple if you start your own website bagging them. (Like the iPod 
Batteries site)
That is my only concern about getting a mac.
For what its worth, I wouldn't bother with Edubuntu, just go for Ubuntu, 
install the education packages and edubuntu themes and you get the same 
result. There seems to be better support on forums etc for Ubuntu rather 
than Edubuntu.
Cheers
Cameron

Meadows, Roslyn M wrote:
>
> When I arrived back at Bentleigh this year I was told there was no 
> laptop for me, so I went and purchased my own. A week later I was told 
> yes you can have a laptop, so guess what folks – I chose the mac - why 
> not? I’m looking forward to having a play!!! Haven’t used a mac since 
> the 80’s!! No mac support here though –the macophiles are on their own 
> if something goes wrong, many of whom only got the mac because at the 
> time it came with a free ipod, not necessarily because they knew 
> anything about macs (or pc’s) - so hoping if I can get on top of 
> things with it I can help the others too J I will definitely be 
> looking at boot camp for the mac and edubuntu for either the mac or 
> pc! Not sure what config it will arrive with.
>
> On the topic of Office 2007 I am sure if you get the one year sub it 
> will be removed at the first windows update – this happened to an 
> older laptop of mine onto which I had installed the beta version. It 
> will now not install Office 2003. Thanks opensourcerers for OpenOffice!!!!
>
> Cheers
>
> Ros
>
> **Roslyn Meadows | Information Technology***
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> [mailto:offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Roland Gesthuizen
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 6 March 2007 1:05 PM
> *To:* Information Technology Teachers' Offtopic Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [Offtopic] MS Office $75 for uni students
>
> 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 
> <mailto: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>
> > <mailto: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
> >
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> >
> > >>> Charles Clarke< cfc at beaconhills.vic.edu.au 
> <mailto:cfc at beaconhills.vic.edu.au>
> > <mailto: 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 
> <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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