[Klug-general] answer to my FOI request from Kent County Coucil

[Dan Attwood]

It's about management of those machines as well not just user experience.

All the machines in KCC will be windows and they will all be being managed
centrally via SCCM and AD.

Having of pool of machines that are different would be a pain.

On 14 October 2014 15:18, Jonathan Kaye <jdkaye at riseup.net> wrote:

>  Paul Littlefield wrote on 14/10/14 10:01:
>
> On 13/10/14 19:38, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
>
> FYI here is the response I received from Kent County Council regarding the
> decision to continue using Microsoft products. Any comments?
>
>
> I am amazed that you had such a detailed reply, which explains a LOT and
> does not suprise me about Microsoft.
>
> Open Source is not for everyone, yet.
>
> Maybe one day...
>
> :)
>
> But well done for getting THAT reply!
>
> :) Thanks. I'm glad you find it interesting. I certainly do.
>
> Just finished another stint of volunteer work at the Margate library. I'd
> say 95% of the end users sitting at the library machines are using a
> browser. Explorer vs. Firefox/Chrome/..., really is this an issue? The
> remainder are using Writer for fairly basic stuff. Haven't noticed anyone
> doing advanced work involving writing their own macros that require the
> Writer macro language rather than the Libreoffice macro language. I could
> go on but I guess/hope you get my point. If we're talking about end-users I
> don't see the basis for the claim that switching to free software would be
> a problem. A minuscule portion of the end-users are doing anything that
> requires photoshop or the like. If you're using a computer at a public
> library the most technical task you're going to be doing is printing out a
> boarding pass. I fully agree with your statement that free software is not
> for everyone but surely you're talking about people who  have  their own
> equipment and/or people who do their techie stuff at work.
> Jonathan
>
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