<div dir="ltr">I don't know about students, but my mother is a teacher and she has to use some legacy software that was written for Windows XP and fails on Win 7 about 70% of the time. It's proprietary software written by the ministry for education and could not be easily ported to Linux.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Gabor Szabo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gabor@szabgab.com" target="_blank">gabor@szabgab.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>In our school the management is trying to implement BYOD = Bring Your Own DeviceĀ </div><div><br></div><div>Some details here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://schooly.co.il/rabin-modiin/page.asp?page_parent=105646" target="_blank">http://schooly.co.il/rabin-modiin/page.asp?page_parent=105646</a></div><div><br></div><div>First they talked about tablets but now it seems they talk about making us buy</div><div>notebooks.</div><div>Among many other issues, please note the technical requirements that gives us a choice of operating system:</div><div>Windows 7 or Windows 8</div><div><br></div><div>OTOH I could not find any information regarding the applications they want to run.</div><div><br></div><div>Do you have any information about similar projects in other schools in Israel?<br></div><div>What kind of devices have they used? What kind of applications do they install?</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Gabor</div><div><br></div></font></span></div>
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