Microsoft picking on a public school? :lol: The government fucks with M$, M$ fucks with the government. Hehehe. I don't believe in the way that Microsoft picks on small businesses with their licensing shit, but as a poor bastard who attends public school, I say power to Microft!
I hate Microsoft for making shitty software.
But I hate public school system even more for making a shitty education.
We use Windows 98 on all of the PCs here at Winton Woods High School, and I must say, they deserve everything they get. In the last few years, WWHS has been hit with numerous viruses from guys like me. Last year, we were hit with a virus that took out the whole district for two weeks, and I know the guy who did it.
A buddy of mine found the one PC they left without a firewall and did his business. He slipped in a disk with ten different virusses and uploaded them all to the main server and the PC itself. It took them two weeks to figure the thing out, and by the time they found the source, the entire hard drive had been eaten away by trojans. :lol:
So please don't cry for public schools that use Windows. I've warned Winton Woods about the lack of security that comes with Microsoft software, but they never listen. Most of the teachers never even heard of Linux. They usually say something like "Oh Linux, that's too expensive," even though the OS is free, just RedHat costs money. Check out the Winton Woods web site. They haven't updated it in ages. The school anthem is posted in .wav PCM format! Ever heard of MP3? Ogg? The tech guys haven't even found the MP3s that I've got saved on my network drive. Hehehe.
http://www.hccanet.org/wwhs/