[K12OSN] PD for staff (really OO)

[Andrew Fournier]

Yeah, I have seen gratuitous ie requirements before. execrable.

On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 04:56, Terrell Prude', Jr. wrote:
> SASIxp, in the case of my district.
> 
> Also, we have certain Web apps that apparently depend on ActiveX (our 
> development team uses Microsoft dev tools).  Thus, they run only on 
> Internet Exploder.  This is apparently being done to "force" the Mac 
> lovers, of which there are many in our schools, to move to Windows (our 
> many thousands of Macs typically have Netscape, but not IE, installed).
> 
> --TP
> 
> Andrew Fournier wrote:
> 
> >Mission critical? What win software is mission critical in a school?
> >A. Fournier
> >On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 13:16, Nakashima wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 05:00:58PM -0400, Barry Solof wrote:
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>I *knew* somebody was going to suggest that!
> >>>>
> >>>>If only there were a way to magically replace all the doze apps in my
> >>>>network overnight.  You bet I'd switch us over to ltsp.
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>This always makes me wonder, how did school IT deal with moving, say,
> >>>from Apple II and the like, to Win3.1 or Mac, back when that transition
> >>>took place?
> >>>
> >>>-bill!
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Technology systems were not as entrenched or mission critical back then,
> >>so it was a less difficult transition.
> >>--Peter
> >>
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