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Free Office 2010 Web Apps in your school

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To compete with Google Docs, Microsoft Office 2010 web apps is free. If you want to use Microsoft Office without an internet connection you will need to purchase the offline version of the software for the usual educational price tag of around £30.

Microsoft Office Web Apps is an on-line version of Microsoft office.

So what do you/don’t you get with Office web apps?

  1. No Microsoft publisher
  2. You get limited web based versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote
  3. Access anywhere, any time (requires internet)
  4. You can upload your current existing Office 2003/2007 documents

When it comes to it, you have a few options for working with documents.

  1. Purchase the office suite.
  2. Use the free online tools by Microsoft – Microsoft Live @ Edu
  3. Use the free online tools by Google – Google Apps Education Edition
  4. Use open office (Free).
  5. Use educationally focused alternatives such as Glogster, Scribblar, Empressr, PrimaryPad – Each of these alternatives is specific to one job, and that job is done well. (Mostly free)
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Parents of pupils can upgrade to Windows 7 for just £35

Posted on by primaryt
But Microsoft are up to their old tricks…

RT @studentsoftware: Parents/Students: Get your pre-order in now for Win 7 Pro £35 offer, 32-bit or 64-bit editions: http://bit.ly/4EgNIk

Reading that tweet makes it sound like you can buy Windows 7 for £35 right? Why include the 32/64 bit edition part and not the word upgrade? The tweet was RT’d by someone senior in Microsoft’s marketing department.

I think Microsoft should learn that consumers don’t like being mislead, especially those in the education market… This offer is still great and we salute them for taking pupils and teachers into account! Thanks Microsoft.

More info on the £35 upgrade offer is available at:

http://www.software4students.co.uk/Microsoft_Windows_7_Professional_32_bit_Upgrade_Edition-details.aspx

Installing Sugar (Soas) onto Windows Virtual PC 2007

Posted on by primaryt

Sugar won’t install by default. I have tried hitting tab and adding noreplace-paravirt to no avail 🙁


This is a screen dump of what I have..


Adding add vga=0x32D will boot me into the GUI but I have no mouse!

Adding i8042.noloop gives me a mouse!

How to do it:

  1. Create a Virtual PC
  2. Set RAM to 256MB
  3. Mount Sugar ISO image
  4. Start up your Virtual PC
  5. A message will pop up saying “Automatic boot up in 1 second” – Hit TAB!
  6. You will see a line saying “vmlinuz0 initrd=initrd0.img root=CDLABEL=Soas2-200906221314 rootfstype=auto ro liveimg quiet rhbg”. Remove the last 2 words (quiet and rhbg)
  7. Add “vga=0x32D i8042.noloop” to the end of the line
The line should read…

vmlinuz0 initrd=initrd0.img root=CDLABEL=Soas2-200906221314 rootfstype=auto ro liveimg vga=0x32D i8042.noloop

*Note the CDLABEL value may change dependant on the release you use!

**Note Files will not be saved in this version, there will be no persistence so updates will not be saved either. This is not the case if you boot from a USB Key

Congrats – Working Sugar on a virtual PC 🙂