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Note that you can't upgrade however, thanks to the s*dding EU Microsoft to Europe: No Windows 7 upgrades for you! | Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report | ZDNet.com , though thankfully the prices are actually not far from that of the upgrade.

"High quality advice and consultancy is vital for local authorities and schools" - about time they got some then instead of consultants who know naff all about education and the needs to T&L.

Ditto - Technet Plus here. We used to pay for it as a direct purchase out of school funds, but now as part of our SA benefits.

Not so - MS have said they'll take IE8 out of W7 for the EU - Opera are still up in arms (hence the brilliant Boycott Opera campaign being run!) as they realise that people STILL won't use their browser, and that the only way anyone ever will, is to get MS to bundle Opera with Windows in some way... Pot? Kettle? Black? Also don't see Apple being gone after for all the bundling they do, but, O wait, Apple are the darling of the media and the masses, so that's OK. Now people whine that MS don't bundle Windows with anti-virus/malware?! Cake & eat it.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft offers free anti-virus Love the 3rd paragraph - "The software giant has been criticised in the past for failing to include free security software with Windows." Umm... think they get critisied for including necessary software in their OS actually... like browsers! Can't have it both ways!

We had the same thing - Apparently it a "courier issue" with them being backside-retentive... a call to the helpline and they get them out again the next day to collect the remaining bags.

Scary... each to their own I suppose! We have a similar problem here, leaves nothing to the imagination.

They seem to go through their NMs rather quickly there... shame as it is quite a nice school.

Well I'm a hard man to please with gadgets and I'm impressed. Sounds like she's not putting the keypad lock on, though to be fair, did take me a bit to work out how to engage it! Not sure on formats off the top of my head, but haven't had to convert anything... yet!

@ Mac - Worth looking at The Missing Sync for Mobile Smartphones to Mac OS X and Windows

iTunes will only work with Apple products (or the Palm Pre until Apple fix that loophole!), WMP will sync the HTC Touch HD though. Fairly easy switching, took me all of 20 minutes to rip all my music off my iPod, get it organised properly, and uploaded to the TouchHD.

Mandatory roaming profiles for students is a good idea, yes. Most certainly not normal roaming profiles though - would create a few issues!

Exchange, Software VPN, MIS, Moodle(pending). We publish instructions for people on how to install our own CA cert into their browsers.

Orange (PAC'd number over from O2 as O2 refuse to stock phones better than the iPhone so as not to upset Apple). Seems Orange have gotten rid of it from their website though, can still get it from CPW ( HTC Touch HD on Dolphin, £35, 600 minutes, unlimited txt, 18 months - The Carphone Warehouse ), though they're charging about £98 for the phone now, should think you can haggle them down though. Still cheaper than an iPhone!

We're in the process of the ICT Mark here - nothing about needing roaming profiles. ICT Mark is about how ICT is used to enhanced teaching & learning. The resources merely need to provide the means to deliver those enhancements. Personalised desktops most certainly do not come into it!

iPhone Killers - Chapter 5: iPhone vs. HTC Touch HD | Mobile Phone News

Got it free on £35. Comes with 8GB MicroSD, will take a 16GB card. Gives more freedom than built in, non expandable, storage.

There is only one answer - HTC Touch HD. 'tis the phone of the Gods. You just have to look at the iPhone specs to see it's just designed to keep fanboys happy. Touch HD has glorious screen (bigger than iPhone), Google Maps, Push e-mail, 5MP camera, basically everything you could want in a phone. http://www.htc.com/www/product/touchhd/overview.html Another site gives a good review between the two, just can't find it at the moment.

iPhone is wayyyyyy overrated, save your money. Go for a HTC - I love my TouchHD personally, but quite expensive without a contract. Go for the Touch Pro2 or Diamond2. Samsung Omnia HD is good to.

You need to replace the default.html (or index.html) with a one to redirect the site.

Pretty sure the answer to 2 is a Yes, they do. You will definately need to check this with a licensing expert though.

Pretty sure you can't, and Capita won't support it even if you can. SIMS, Sharepoint, ADP, SQL DBs for SIMS, Sharepoint, ADP, all on one box?! You shouldn't even really have both the SharePoint DB and website on the same server, let alone all on one with SIMS! If the SLT want to go down the SIMS route, then they need to provide the funding for the necessary hardware.

My condolences I'll miss stories of him on here, always did brighten up an otherwise dull day. Requiescat In Pace

Doesn't help - but HTC Touch HD syncs fine with Outlook 2007/WMDC/Windows 7 RC

Doesn't look like it's turned up on YT yet... but sure it will! There was no official WWDC stream, never is, but one guy managed to get away with doing a secret uStream of it for the whole 2 hours, same stream was also rebroadcast on TWiT Live.