Haha, when dividing 150 mil with 225 000 you get 666,666666 etc. ;-)

And where is the info provided from for this article??

Regulas, you really are an idiot. The government is purchasing that amount of netbooks for the state school students to use. They don't have to accept them or use them, or keep Windows on them.

The Inq should be charged with flame baiting for this story!

Okay Linux boyz... And don't get me wrong, I have dedicated linux machines here, and my laptop dual boots.... BUT...

They are educating these students for current general common PC use... Which, unfortunately, still means windows and probably office.

Actually, correct that, we're talking education here... They'll be teaching them based on common desktop usage at least 10 years ago... Hell, I remember being taught about paper tape in the 1980s! I got told off for laughing.

Students should learn Future not a Past. Using Windows they learn nothing because the time of non-open operating systems and applications is over.

Instead of letting the students pick their own laptop they will force conformity upon the masses. No free thinking allowed lemmings.

@robert, why would you let students learn a linux os when 95% of the the time they'll use a windows os in the workplace

why their government is paying for an obsolete OS when they could have had current software with GNU/Linux. What is the point of exposing students to twentieth century technology in the twenty-first century? If schools are using XP/2003, how will XP Home work for them?