Britain Advises Against Vista, Office 2007 for Schools

"The British government's educational IT authority has issued a report advising schools in the country not to upgrade their classroom or office systems to Windows Vista or Office 2007. According to this InformationWeek story, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency says costs for Vista and Office 2007 'are significant and the benefits remain unclear.' Instead, Becta is advising British schools to take a long look at Linux and open source suites like OpenOffice.org."

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/11/2242208

"To ensure widest compatibility of files between different applications, users of Office 2007 should not save in Microsoft's new Office format (OOXML)."

http://news.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=35287