[senit] vista

To start with we have been saving files in 2003

hi on vista again, toshiba seem to reccomend home
premium for home users and vista business for
education sector.Vista ultimate adds quite a bit more
cost.
With laptops for SLD schools Winxp pro seemed most
common, mostly for staff use, including connecting to
projectors and also sometimes to the network for
teaching. What version of vista do you reccomend for
new laptops in an SLD school?
david
--- David Banes <david.banes at abilitynet.org.uk> wrote:

> To start with we have been saving files in 2003
> format but yes people
> tend to forget 
> 
> Our elearning course on Vista includes material on
> office 2007 and its
> proven popular along with the day courses on the two
> that we have been
> running 
> 
> There are a lot of features in 2007 that people will
> one day love - but
> the fact that the ribbon is so different to out
> experience is going to
> cause some problems for some time 
> 
> I recommend working through the tutorials and demos
> from MS steadily
> they do help the transition process
> 
> David Banes
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
> [mailto:senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf
> Of Alex Hammerstein
> Sent: 01 December 2007 20:45
> To: senit at lists.becta.org.uk
> Subject: RE: [senit] vista
> 
> Judith
> 
> With one of my other hats on, yes to your question
> re Office 2007.  In
> fact
> we run a part time distance learning course for the
> University of
> Plymouth,
> with over 1000 students enrolled, and based around
> explaining how to use
> MS
> office.  I have just rewritten the whole course to
> accommodate Office
> 2007
> :)
> 
> There is a plug-in that you can download from the MS
> Site that will
> automatically convert a 2007 word document to Word
> 2003, when opened in
> 2003
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
> [mailto:senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf
> Of Judith Stansfield
> Sent: 01 December 2007 19:37
> To: senit at lists.becta.org.uk
> Subject: RE: [senit] vista
> 
> I have just been involved with the opening of a new
> Learning Centre
> attached to a village hall and funded by Lottery and
> European funding -
> designed to support adults who want learn in their
> own community - it is
> equipped with laptops and desktops that came with
> Vista, but as most of
> our clients are using XP or an earlier OS, we got
> licences to run XP
> with the idea of re-installing Vista later when it
> is more widespread.
> We also got Office 2007 which is TOTALLY different
> from earlier
> versions, so as all the WEA teaching materials for
> CLAIT and ECDL are
> geared to Office 2003, we have also (temporarily I
> hope) downgraded to
> Office 03.  Is anyone using the new Office? It has
> an Apple Mac feel
> about it and I am sure will be great in the long
> run, but the
> icons/menus are not totally intuitive and it can be
> quite hard to find
> things - I had prepared a powerpoint on my own
> machine and when I needed
> to change the timings of the presentation in the new
> Office, it took
> ages to find!  We also found it is essential to save
> as an older version
> or rtf file if you want to transfer work between
> Office 07 and earlier
> versions of Word etc - I can see this is going to
> cause chaos for people
> who circulate info to a lot of people using
> different versions!
> Cheers
> Judith
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
> [mailto:senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf
> Of David Banes
> Sent: 30 November 2007 21:51
> To: aph at misnet.co.uk; senit at lists.becta.org.uk;
> Mandy Griffin
> Subject: RE: [senit] vista
> 
> 
> The choice of when to move to a new operating system
> is always a major
> one - where one has complete control over the timing
> of investment,
> waiting may be a reasonable stance. However where
> one is involved in
> major initiatives such as BSF, a decision about an
> earlier rollout of
> the new OS may be necessary. Vista offers a number
> of opportunities to
> people with a disability including speech
> recognition, ease of access
> centre and video training material and
> demonstrations. As well as
> frustrations with compatibility.
> 
> If you are currently investing in new systems for
> school or local
> authority, you are investing for the next 3 years -
> and hence are likely
> to want systems with Vista on now, rather than need
> to upgrade the new
> hardware with a new OS in 6-12 months - that is why
> it is important to
> do a gap analysis on the applications you are
> currently running and
> determine whether they will run from day 1 on Vista,
> not run at all or
> run with a series of patches or fixes - but remember
> these are dependent
> on the developer of the solution not Microsoft. 
> 
> Understanding this last point is important -
> Creative Labs decided not
> to issue drivers for many of its webcams instead a
> search for a driver
> told you to buy a new webcam ! That was a commercial
> decision by
> Creative for good or for bad
> 
> There are many issues to consider when implementing
> a new OS and the
> features we want in schools, networking, security,
> speed are important -
> application compatibility is equally important and
> Id be interested to
> know what people are finding works and doesn't work
> on Vista - Id only
> say that the argument is painfully circular 
> 
> 
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