New Zealand Rejects Office For Macs http://slashdot.org/articles/07/05/29/0152250.shtml
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 29, @08:02AM from the my-word,-how-can-our-students-excel? dept. Education Microsoft The Almighty Buck An anonymous reader writes "The New Zealand Ministry of Education has declined to renew a licensing deal for MS Office on 25,000 Macintosh computers in the country's schools. The Education Minister has suggested that schools use the free alternative NeoOffice. The article quotes a school principal who pointed out that the NeoOffice website warns users to expect problems and bugs: 'That's not the sort of software we should be expecting kids in New Zealand to be using.'" Schools are free to buy their own copies of Office. A blog on the New Zealand Herald site argues that the Ministry should have paid Microsoft this time, but not renewed the deal and instead developed a transition plan to open source.
