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Below is the BECTA Press Statement hot off the press as of 9:00 today 16 Sept; but what does it all mean and for partners in particular? Firstly, there will be a new licensing pilot that will be introduced in approximately 6 months time. The details have
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the latest news from Becta , when they were reported as saying that pupils’ learning would be harmed if Office didn’t support Open Document Format (ODF). So hopefully they’ll be smiling this morning, now that we’ve
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Becta have recently provided an update on where they have got to with their negotiations with us on licensing etc. (You may recall, they referred some of their complaints to the OFT late last year). Their latest update, in the form of a press release,
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Firstly, what is OpenXML? Well, it's the underlying document format in Office 2007. Market researchers with the Burton Group have issued a 37-page study– not commissioned by Microsoft or any other tech vendor — that finds Microsoft’s OOXML document format
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What is DAISY you might ask? The DAISY Consortium, a coalition of talking-book libraries and nonprofit organizations, was formed in 1996 to harness the rich capabilities opened up by the transition from analog to digital technology to ensure that all
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