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Village school improves w/ help from Microsoft

Posted by: Kat on: Tuesday, 30 September 2008

Well, MS can’t be all bad, can it?

clipped from newsinfo.inquirer.net

The laboratory is using Microsoft Vista, but Dunleavy promised the school that when he visits the village again next year, he would bring along a Microsoft Version 7

What was then a small school in a depressed village began to change

He gave us fund for school [...]

RP school switches away from FOSS

Posted by: Kat on: Thursday, 17 July 2008

Wah.
Come on, guys. What’s wrong with learning something new, and saving your school money while you’re at it?

clipped from newsinfo.inquirer.net

MAKATI City, Philippines — Local school St. Paul College Pasig (SPCP) has recently decided to replace its existing open source system to standardize on Windows Vista and the latest Microsoft Office system, Microsoft Philippines said.

Microsoft [...]

Random Tala

Posted by: Kat on: Sunday, 29 June 2008

The local news in my hometown featured animators from General Santos City one morning. Apparently, an ICT group based there is aiming to turn GenSan into the animation capital of the Philippines. I think that would be great, because (1) I’d love to see GenSan get on the ICT train, (2) animation is something for [...]

Goodbye, XP

Posted by: Kat on: Thursday, 26 June 2008

clipped from blogs.zdnet.com

After months of rumors that Microsoft might rethink its decision to pull the plug on Windows XP, the� official word is out: XP is on its way out.

Microsoft is sticking to its plan to cease providing PC makers with XP to preload on new PCs after June 30, as Microsoft is now letting [...]