There's trouble in Gates paradise. Follow this link to a BBC article about it.
Basically, BECTA have warned schools against signing crafty licensing agreements with Microsoft, who claim to have the school's best interests at heart; access for all, for a good price. It's very persuasive, considering the amount of money that has to be spent on ICT software for schools. However, Microsoft seems to have implemented some problematic small-print; every computer in the school has to be licensed to use the software even though some will be running something else.
BECTA just wants everyone to have access to the best service for the best price. Microsoft wants to expand the kingdom.
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Absolutely.
We have so much choice these days, thanks to the Open Source movement... Open Office, which is free and a pile of on-line applications like Google Docs, wikis, blogs, social networking ... all for free.
Web2 applications support an online environment, where we communicate and 'do'our computing on a web platform rather than on our computers using software installed on the hard drive.
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