“Our advice is to be sure there is a strong business case for upgrading to these products as the costs are significant and the benefits remain unclear,” said Stephen Lucy, Becta’s executive director of strategic technologies, in a statement.
Ouch! We’re seeing more and more governments and organizations coming out against Windows Vista and other Microsoft products. Microsoft makes much of their money through software licensing (especially their flagship products XP/Vista and Office) and you have to start to wonder about the long term effects these decisions will have on their profits.
Trust me, I’m not shedding any tears for Microsoft. Sadly, I used to be a big fan of Microsoft, but it seems that over the years, they’ve lost track of their core competencies and try to get their hands into everything. If someone puts out a product, they rush right out with a similar product of their own.
Becta also makes mention of Microsoft’s decision not to support the Open Document Format. Instead, Microsoft went ahead with it’s own proprietary format called Open XML. Just another way of Microsoft forcing the use of their products onto consumers.
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