Open Source software is a large part of the future for schools.  There is no point in eternally giving large amounts of funds to Microsoft when there are similar quality programs available, including server software,  which can be used in schools.

Firefox is a great start to disentangling from Microsoft.  For those who don’t know it’s a very popular web browser which is releasing v3 on Tuesday 17th June.  The big benefit is that it can incorporate plug-ins from many different developers.  You might wish to download the new version.

In April 2008 39% of the web browsers worldwide were Firefox – up from 33% in April 2007