'Kaos og forvirring' til eksamen efter opdatering af Word
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Ministerium advarer om, at Microsoft-programmer kan skabe problemer til skriftlig eksamen for studerende med Mac-computere.

Sorry for the Danish post i hope you can translate it.

The Ministry warns that Microsoft programs can create problems for written exams for students with Mac computers.

Users who have updated the programs to the latest version may experience the programs running slowly, freezing and crashing. This means that the examinees are delayed in their work and that parts of the answers risk being lost, write the Agency for Education and Quality and the Agency for IT and Learning in a notice to schools.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    74·
    6 months ago

    The tools aren’t given just out of the goodness of Microsofts heart. Make everyone use word so now if i don’t use words I might run into compatibility issues. Make everyone use Microsoft teams, so well, little options there to even use a competing product.

    The issue here is that Microsoft does it to force people into using their products whether they want or need to or not

    • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
      61·
      6 months ago

      Microsoft doesn’t give out shit. The schools pay for it.

      • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        You don’t seem to know how that works.

        Microsoft will gracefully give lower licensing costs for students if the school opts in Microsoft and opts out the competition. It’s been a while (10 years ago) but I saw this in universities where then students had the choice, windows or mac because Microsoft forced it.

        • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          In my school they used A1 (or some other A) licences for students. They are probably cheaper than other licenses but they are not free.

          I have no idea if they have opted out the competition (whatever that means).

          Our class never used any normal windows client OSes (on bare metal anyway). We primarily used Windows server evaluation or Linux depending on the course. I think the other classes primarily used VDI.

          Do you have a source for this:

          Microsoft will gracefully give lower licensing costs for students if the school opts in Microsoft and opts out the competition.

          And what do you mean by opt out? Do they sign a contract saying that they won’t use Linux? That seems extremely unlikely, why would they even care? Seems more likely to be an IT policy because they want to manage the devices or they don’t want to provide support for non Windows or Mac devices.

          If you have no evidence or source, do you know for sure that it’s happening (as in you worked in IT or similar role for the university) or it’s a rumour you heard?

          • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            University in Mexico, at least 10 years ago but I wonder if things have improved much.

            With opt out I mean that they are not allowed to promote Linux in an official capacity. Can’t use it on their own computers, etc. everything official must use a Microsoft format that sort of thing.