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Computer Weekly polls organisations on Microsoft vs Open Source products

http://epidm.edgesuite.net/RBI/computerweekly/CWRES/HTML/SurveyResults2.pdf

This highlights the uptake of OSS various sized organisations have done. MS is unsurprisingly the winner. The trialled statistics are interesting.

Implications for education?

1. MS dominates and therefore we should make sure we are using MS products to best prepare our pupils for their futures.

2. Using OSS in education is clearly more important as we remove obstacles to use OSS by providing rich and dependable experiences for our young people who will feed this into industry.

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Google launches Chrome

Google is launching a new open source browser (1 September 2008)

See Google's announcement

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