Re: [LUG] Kids failing on coursework because of proprietary file formats

[James Andrews <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My daughters school (Uffculme) use MS software pretty much exclusively. I was encountering consumer resistance from her as we were using Open Office at home and it is subtly different to the MS programs.

So when I got her a new laptop, it was MS Windows and I bought a "student edition" of MS Office suite

Even so there has been a couple of occasions when she has wanted to have MS Publisher or some other Billyware just because that's what the teacher was using.  And the student edition doesn't include every single obscure program in the MS line up.

Now the laptop is not connecting to the 'Net, apparently because we switched wireless routers and Windows XP Sp3 has various bizarre problems with interoperability. 

This is a PITA because most of her homework seems to involve googling for images to put in various presentations

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