Microsoft Deal in the UK
This is an interesting article from the BBC. - School’s warned off Microsoft Deal
“Becta’s advice to schools considering moving to Microsoft’s School Agreement subscription licensing model is that they should not do so.
It reminds schools they are legally obliged to have licensed software, but suggests they use instead what is known as “perpetual licensing”.
This gives the permanent right to use the software and requires no ongoing payments beyond the purchase price.
The advantage to schools in using a subscription service such as Microsoft’s is that smaller, annual payments are involved rather than a larger one-off cost.
But a spokesman for Becta said the problem was that Microsoft required schools to have licences for every PC in a school that might use its software, whether they were actually doing so or running something else.”
Becta has produced two interesting reports on the MS Deal and Windows Vista & Office and interoperability
This mirrors some of the concerns that I also have with the Microsoft Deal in New Zealand
October 29th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
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October 29th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
[...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here’s a quick excerptBut a spokesman for Becta said the problem was that Microsoft required schools to have licences for every PC in a school that might use its software, whether they were actually doing so or running something else.” … [...]