Same deal here, microsoft "donates" its shit to our schools. Now we're forced to use windows, even though our comps can't handle anything over 98, so they're unreliable and generally shit. Plus, using 98/95 means we don't get any support.
Installing Linux, which the comps could run, and run well, is out of the question. So we're stuck with shit unsupported software. Yet somehow they have the time to make sure nobody installes something unapproved, like linux, firefox, openoffice.