CyberNerd

Case in point being Samsungs implementation: AnandTech | Samsung Laptops Bricked by Booting Linux Using UEFI and some manufacturers don't even allow UEFI to be turned off .

Sanity check = /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg is quite helpful. ps - you can copy and paste configs - it isn't windows.

China has been using Linux on Govt computers for the last 13yrs, CNN.com - Technology - Microsoft in China: Clash of titans - February 23, 2000

Products ? Google Apps for Business | United Kingdom IIRC about $10 per member of staff per year - students are free.

We found that a Google Apps domain is the ultimate way of integrating Windows, IOS, Android,Linux,Chromebooks and OSX - an online office,photo,video and email suite that works on all of these devices.

It was just an anti Google bitchfest...

I thought it was the same technology. May be wrong.

Neither would i in this case but it is an option for older machines where putting a new operating system on it is too costly or result in a slower machine.

Search "unetbootin" is the Linux version in most repos.

There are tools like Intels SSD optimiser mean you can effectively use SSD's without OS built in TRIM on Vista, XP: http://download.intel.com/design/flash/nand/mainstream/Intel_SSD_Optimizer_White_Paper.pdf

We've been using McAfee and are very happy with it. MS for security? After they keep failing AV-Test results here: AV-TEST - The Independent IT-Security Institute: Corporate User

We paid £550. Still quite pricey though. just debian and chromium

We just point to a webserver with a bit of JavaScript to rotate pages (and avoid burn in). Nothing too fancy.

We just got LG 42LM660T-ZA with Raspberry Pi`s velcroed to the back of them.

Sounds like BS FUD to me.

@stylemessiah So with your wealth of experience are you now so fearful of installing anything not present in the operating system? You seem to be leveling a lot of accusations against Google without any proof that they are even doing the things you suggest - which are clearly outside of their terms and conditions anyway. It wouldn't be legal for Google or Microsoft to pass on data to employment agencies, they would be sued into oblivion. Why do you think they are doing it?

Its for home users. There's an MSI and group policy for organisations That would be against how windows is intended to handle things.

You should block internet access at the network level - on the firewall - client based security isn't such a good plan.

Allowing users to install stuff in /home/user is pretty standard practice on anything non-windows. It's not a conspiracy.

Why not just install it if your users want it?

It would be against both Microsoft and Google's terms of service if they made data accessible, they would be sued if they divulged anything confidential.

I can't live without the "restore this revision" button these days.

I'm sure MS and Google will be fascinated by their schoolwork.

Office 365, skydrive , live webmail work in exactly the same ways as google albeit with fewer features. The kids only have temporary accounts anyway, its not like their 365 account is going to follow them around for the rest of their lives.

I think the days of locally hosted are over. Even the office 2013 default behaviour is to save to the cloud. Its just too convenient for users to have a single place for everything and more so when software experiences are the same on a multitude of devices at home,at work etc.