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Microsoft Gains Ground as School Dumps Linux OS
Aug 4, 2008, 15 :30 UTC (20 Talkback[s]) (6471 reads)

"SPCP Directress Sr. Teresita Baricaua said technical and compatibility issues brought frustrations to students who unable to present their Windows-based reports in the school’s Linux-equipped PCs.

"Our students usually present their class reports using Microsoft PowerPoint. When these are given out as homework, they use their computers at home to prepare their reports with PowerPoint,"..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
I pity these children to be sent to a sc ...   Idiocy   
NM
Aug 4, 2008, 16:34:30  
The school could have handed out OpenOff ...   PowerPoint is a unique product?   
Nomen Publicus
Aug 4, 2008, 16:47:40  
In all likelihood! Fancy M$ letting any ...   Re: PowerPoint is a unique product?   
Khan Md Ashraf
Aug 4, 2008, 17:03:16  
http://msforums.ph/forums/t/49009.aspx ...   Alternate link   
jhansonxi
Aug 4, 2008, 17:17:46  
I personally don't trust the author. ...   Melvin Calimag Article Pulled?   
Roy Schestowitz
Aug 4, 2008, 17:28:05  
Like they tried hiring like a limo compa ...   Only in Beverly Hills   
Jose_X
Aug 4, 2008, 17:32:40  
I abhor Microsoft and their business pra ...   ...nothing new here, move along!   
Lager And Crisps
Aug 4, 2008, 17:44:29  
The article on the Manila Bulletin refus ...   The Article is down   
Jim
Aug 4, 2008, 17:44:54  
It was a good link- really! I searched f ...   disappearing URL   
Carla Schroder
Aug 4, 2008, 17:57:57  
Well, if the original article is like th ...   Stomach Turning Saccharine   
C. Whitman
Aug 4, 2008, 19:42:32  
Glad my kids don't attend that schoo ...   Glad my kids don't attend that school   
JAFO
Aug 4, 2008, 21:21:33  
"SPCP Directress Sr. Teresita Baricaua s ...   A hell of a dumb directress - whatever that is.   
SM
Aug 4, 2008, 21:52:38  
Although St Paul is a "decent" private s ...   Phils conversion   
ba
Aug 4, 2008, 22:40:36  
Some people believe anything they are to ...   Not incompatibility, not difficulty, no article.   
Spanky
Aug 5, 2008, 05:07:55  
Excellent article. Despite the lies, st ...   Reprint   
Yonah
Aug 5, 2008, 17:19:02  
If I'm a FOSStard, then you're a ...   Re: Reprint   
Stuart DeGraaf
Aug 5, 2008, 17:44:58  
1) this appears to be direct from MS&#39 ...   Telling points...   
Bernard Swiss
Aug 6, 2008, 00:47:34  
> Excellent article. Despite the lies, ...   Re: Reprint   
blackhole
Aug 6, 2008, 06:08:44  
The sad thing is. Yes this failed becaus ...   The sad thing is   
FredW
Aug 7, 2008, 16:14:37  
One things for sure (if the article is e ...   No concil and just plain poor IT.   
Spanky
Aug 9, 2008, 15:07:40  
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