Last week the Ministry of Ed. decided not to cough up about $4million so that schools could run MSOffice on Apples. They already pay a whack to MS and felt that there were perfectly good alternatives. One principal complained can caused a stir.

I wrote an article on the background issues that appeared here at stuff.co.nz.

Text of the article below (as Stuff archives stories after a while). I didn't pick the headline:

School software stoush shows changing times

By DONALD CHRISTIE - Stuff.co.nz | Monday, 4 June 2007