Fair deal for schools

Fleur Doidge
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Resellers have called for a box-builder alliance to compete against the dominance of proprietary software pre-installed on computers in schools. Fleur Doidge reports

Loaded issue: School hardware often includes pre-installed proprietary software that schools may not want Sales in areas such as education may shine a light on what is expected to be a dark 2009,...

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