If MS don't step in now this will mean that there is an even larger significant number of Linux youth exposed to free openoffice, free operating systems, and easy to use functionality. Currently 6 million and growing rapidly, that might be enough to achieve critical mass within 5 years, shoving Windows 8 below 50% usage.

Windows Vista is an expensive PITA, Windows 7 is Vista with some updates (this is widely reported in IT press), and so Windows 8 can't be far behind.

Can I yet buy Windows 64 bit and have all my devices work?

If they be to Tudor the ITliterate, they may af forego programming for the proper Toolkit. Nue fpeling: Educafhunal lunacie or wizdom? Geoffraie Chaucer fave uf from the peril that ITA forebodef, but lead uf to fun with Dick and Jane.

from the drug dealers in the parking lot. Giving M$ any influence on the education of children is like turning them over to drug dealers. M$ is desperately trying to create another generation of addicts. Free the children. Give them FLOSS in schools. This will increase literacy and lower the cost and increase exposure to IT, which are good things for society and the students. More exposure to M$ is enslavement and a drag on the economy.

Good intentions here but unless these behemoths release the training for free it will be all for nothing. I do not know a CIO on the planet right now who would spend money on this versus keeping the money for IT infrastructure.

Hell I just wish the idiots in MY IT department were more literate than I am. Unfortunately my companies whole IT department has been outsourced to India and Costa Rica and they are in fact clueless.

I sure hope my company is saving money on their IT because our intranet is falling down around us and upper management thinks things are just peachy.