NSW education downgrades Microsoft deal
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The NSW Department of Education has put Microsoft on notice after it agreed to extend its software licensing agreement with the company for just one year instead of renegotiating a new three-year contract. At the same time, technology chief Stephen Wilson announced the department will install a free alternative to Microsoft's Office suite, referred to in industry circles as OpenOffice, on 41,000 computers due to be distributed to schools across the state by the end of 2008. The NSW Department of Education is also resisting Microsoft's attempts to upgrade users to the latest version of its Vista operating system. Instead, Wilson's team is downgrading every new computer it buys from Vista to Windows XP.
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