Government tells schools to avoid Vista

THE UK schools' computer agency has warned schools of the dangers of buying Microsoft's Vista.

The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency said that deploying Vista was risky and its benefits were unclear.

According to ZD Net, the Agency is telling schools not to deploy the latest VoleWare for at least a year.

The agency gives Vista a poor report saying that it contained no "must-have" features in Vista and but came with "technical, financial and organisational challenges associated with early deployment.”

As for Office 2007, the Agency said that while there were many new features in Office 2007, most of these were only useful in the private sector and as useful as a chocolate teapot for schools.

A jolly indignant Vole was quoted as saying that punters should test the operating system themselves and decide.

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