Re: [seul-edu] Re: MS targeting schools for software audits...

[Sydney Weidman <weidmans@mts.net>]

On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 05:28, Michael Shigorin wrote:
> 
> OTOH, I doubt old 486/Pentiums should qualify as "capable of
> running winxp", though they can act as X terminals.  But that
> could only help bargaining when the school is already giving in.
> 

Here is a direct quote from the Microsoft School Agreement 3.0:

<QUOTE>

Counting Eligible PCs

School Agreement requires an institution-wide commitment. To that end,
you must include all of the eligible PCs in the participating school(s)
or district. Elibible PCs include all of the Pentium machines, Power
Macs, iMacs or better. You must also include any number of 486 machines
or below and any Apple, UNIX, or Windows Terminals on which any of the
software will be run.

For example, a school with 500 Pentiums, 200 iMacs, 200 386 machines and
200 Windows Terminals must include all 700 of their Pentiums and iMacs.
They must then add the older machines on which they will run the School
Agreement software. If they choose to include 100 of their 386 machies
and 50 of their Windows Terminals, they would calculate the total number
of eligible PCs as follows:

700 Pentiums and iMacs + 150 (386 and Windows Terminal machines) = 850
Eligible PCs.

</QUOTE>

Just for accuracy in reporting.