Comments on: Vista (and Office 2007), Here We Come! http://shoemap.edublogs.org/2007/05/17/vista-and-office-2007-here-we-come/ We are all teachers; we are all learners. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:21:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Pam http://shoemap.edublogs.org/2007/05/17/vista-and-office-2007-here-we-come/#comment-68 Pam Mon, 21 May 2007 23:30:31 +0000 http://shoemap.edublogs.org/2007/05/17/vista-and-office-2007-here-we-come/#comment-68 Brian, thanks for the tips. It's looking like our district will be switching from a Novell environment to all Microsoft this summer. So hopefully that will help. I'm happy to hear that you like Office 2007, since Shannell's comment made me nervous! I know that I'll have my work cut out for me. I will enjoy the challenge. Brian, thanks for the tips. It’s looking like our district will be switching from a Novell environment to all Microsoft this summer. So hopefully that will help. I’m happy to hear that you like Office 2007, since Shannell’s comment made me nervous! I know that I’ll have my work cut out for me. I will enjoy the challenge.

]]> By: Brian B. http://shoemap.edublogs.org/2007/05/17/vista-and-office-2007-here-we-come/#comment-67 Brian B. Mon, 21 May 2007 01:48:42 +0000 http://shoemap.edublogs.org/2007/05/17/vista-and-office-2007-here-we-come/#comment-67 Pam, we bought a single laptop with Vista this spring and we've had lots of compatibility issues with our network. In particular, it does not like our network login script. We've done quite a bit of "tweaking" and the laptop is in the hands of a particularly strong tech-user so we get feedback from his experiences on a daily basis. We have Vista running on a couple of desktops too but the field-implementation is the source of most of the good information. I love Office 2007. I admit, I was a bit lost at first and had to seek assistance from the "help" area but now that I've been using it for several months I like it much better than '03. We are not upgrading our teacher and student computers to '07 yet though because of all those expensive "keyboarding" books that are written for '03 (we ought to have a big bon fire with them but I think some taxpayers might have a problem with using those tax dollars for that type of activity). Good luck with Vista and Office 2007! :) Pam, we bought a single laptop with Vista this spring and we’ve had lots of compatibility issues with our network. In particular, it does not like our network login script. We’ve done quite a bit of “tweaking” and the laptop is in the hands of a particularly strong tech-user so we get feedback from his experiences on a daily basis. We have Vista running on a couple of desktops too but the field-implementation is the source of most of the good information.

I love Office 2007. I admit, I was a bit lost at first and had to seek assistance from the “help” area but now that I’ve been using it for several months I like it much better than ‘03. We are not upgrading our teacher and student computers to ‘07 yet though because of all those expensive “keyboarding” books that are written for ‘03 (we ought to have a big bon fire with them but I think some taxpayers might have a problem with using those tax dollars for that type of activity).

Good luck with Vista and Office 2007! :)

]]> By: Shanell http://shoemap.edublogs.org/2007/05/17/vista-and-office-2007-here-we-come/#comment-66 Shanell Fri, 18 May 2007 01:36:38 +0000 http://shoemap.edublogs.org/2007/05/17/vista-and-office-2007-here-we-come/#comment-66 My boyfriend uses Vista (and Linux, and Mac OS X... he likes computers) and he likes it alright. I am not a fan of Office 2007, though. It is not very user friendly. I think the kids will be very confused, and since most of them don't have it at home, teachers will need to be trained to tell kids to save files in compatibility mode. My students have had enormous troubles opening files in Office 2003 when they've been saved in 2007. It's too bad more people don't use Linux, being free and all. Would be good for schools. My boyfriend uses Vista (and Linux, and Mac OS X… he likes computers) and he likes it alright.

I am not a fan of Office 2007, though. It is not very user friendly. I think the kids will be very confused, and since most of them don’t have it at home, teachers will need to be trained to tell kids to save files in compatibility mode. My students have had enormous troubles opening files in Office 2003 when they’ve been saved in 2007.

It’s too bad more people don’t use Linux, being free and all. Would be good for schools.

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