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School District To Parents — Buy Office 2007 632

Posted by kdawson on Saturday July 28 2007, @08:06PM
from the no-more-parents'-dirty-looks dept.

WS Nick writes "Batavia school district in Illinois is recommending that parents of high school students upgrade their home computers to Microsoft Office 2007. Why not use one of the free alternatives and relieve parents of some of the financial burden they face to buy all the stuff for their children the school requires?" A comment from a reader points out how easy it is to interoperate with Office 2007 from earlier versions.

Comment: Re:Private Offices and Open Plan Offices (Score 1) 368

by ergowa on Friday November 24 2006, @09:31AM (#16974056) Attached to: How To Get Rid of the Cubicle?

Heh.

It's true, though. The dotcom I worked for had a semi-open office plan (cubicle-type walls on wheels and clusters of desks). One person would get up to go for a smoking break and that would be the cue for everyone within sight range to take a break with them. If it weren't for the fact that we tended to talk work during smoke breaks, we would have lost quite a bit of productivity with the sudden mass exoduses.