{"id":1557,"date":"2008-01-14T15:33:21","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T20:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2008\/01\/14\/windows-vista-office-2007-expelled-from-british-schools\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:54","slug":"windows-vista-office-2007-expelled-from-british-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2008\/01\/14\/windows-vista-office-2007-expelled-from-british-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Vista, Office 2007 Expelled From British Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/pcin.net\/c\/?1902\">InfoWorld<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The agency that governs educational technology in the United Kingdom has advised schools in the country to keep Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Vista operating system and its Office 2007 software out of the classroom and administrative offices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Upgrading existing ICT systems to Microsoft Vista or Office 2007 is not recommended,&#8221; said the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency, also known as Becta, in a report issued this week.<\/p>\n<p>Becta officials said a study the group commissioned found that upgrading school systems from Windows XP to Vista and Office 2007 would increase costs and create software compatibility problems while providing little benefit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From InfoWorld: The agency that governs educational technology in the United Kingdom has advised schools in the country to keep Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Vista operating system and its Office 2007 software out of the classroom and administrative offices. &#8220;Upgrading existing ICT systems to Microsoft Vista or Office 2007 is not recommended,&#8221; said the British Educational Communications &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}