[ubuntu-uk] Could Linux (and Ubuntu) do more to encourage students?

[LeeUKHA]

> The other argument I hear is that we should be using the system and
> tools that students expect to see in the big wide world once they have
> graduated, and that, of course is Microsoft stuff. 
That's funny... Uni's should use Vista because that's what businesses use...
LOL... I work for a very large multi-national bank... about six months 
ago there was a desktop refresh (all old PCs binned and new ones 
bought), all the new PC came with Win XP obviously...
However the desktop standard is Windows 2000, so they were all wiped and 
had Win2000 installed...
And now Vista is out, are they rushing to install it? No, maybe 2008 at 
the earliest...

Perhaps some should mention what's happening in the REAL WORLD to the 
academics.... :)