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2009-01-11 , 20:14
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Originally Posted by fms View Post
Now find a few dozen millions other MS haters and maybe you can persuade industry dump MS applications completely. Until you do that, they are basically a requirement for any widely sold desktop or laptop.
Nah, I just need one MS hater in a high place. For instance, Obama's relationship with Google could foster good things. Maybe some open standards will trickle down. Who's to say? And not to bring Adobe into it, but PDF is just as much a problem for MS as anything. A teacher wouldn't care where it came from.

Lots of them. You are forgetting that most schools require homework (papers, presentations, etc.) to be submitted in MS Office formats and not just any formats but ones teacher's copy of the Office can open.
The writing's on the wall and in the classroom. Ignore it all you want. Anyway, I'll always be able to setup a virtual Windows and Office 2000/XP if need be, but I doubt it'll be necessary. Backwards compatibility should own MS for quite some time, so all is good. But I predict my son will never know MS Windows.
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