does your school use windows 7?

Kirsch · 21 Jul 2010

I went here:

We didnt need computers.

In all honestly, I am done with school, so I have no idea what they are using now :)

Jugador · 21 Jul 2010

fseal said:

Well I guess I instantly thought of college actually where that was the intended purpose. But any programming or other actual computer classes in HS should be up to date too. If it's just a situation where there is a computer giving a math test then no it doesn't matter at all :)

Still, downgrading the machines is a shame.

Yeah, that was the impression I got, that he was just doing math, english, history, etc on the pc. Yeah, if it's a computer class, or college courses prepping for a career in IT, it definitely needs to be upgraded to Win7.

Petey7 · 21 Jul 2010

My school still has XP on all school computers. I know that VCU, a school I'm considering transferring to in a year or so, required Vista Home Premium Business to be used on student owned computers, depending on the field being studied, shortly after Vista come out, and a quick look shows that they now strongly recommend all computers used for school have 7 Pro. Or they do allow Macs that have Snow Leopard. I also know my old high school downgrades everything to XP. And until 2008-2009 school year, downgraded everything to 2000.

EDIT: I should also mention that my county has what they call "specialty centers", where each high school concentrates on a specific field of study. My high school was the Computer Science and IT specialty center.

esha · 21 Jul 2010

I teach a language course in an education facility for adults. The PCs there still have XP.
Maybe the PCs for the computer classes have Win7 (I suppose they do) but all the others have XP. For the average trainer who just runs a powerpoint presentation via the beamer or plays an audio file on the PC it doesn't make much difference.

And if it's a school for kids and not a kind of college for adults I guess we will be at Windows 8 or higher when the kids finish it so teaching them Win7 skills now won't help them much in 3 years' time

tdr2009 · 19 Oct 2010

My school still uses Windows XP, which I hate. I have Windows 7 at home, and it's WAY better, in my opinion. One thing that was funny, was when our teacher gave us a project on computer, she kept calling it windows 7, and when we got to computers, it had xp on them.

bigmck · 19 Oct 2010

Petey7 said:

I should also mention that my county has what they call "specialty centers", where each high school concentrates on a specific field of study. My high school was the Computer Science and IT specialty center.

I am in Houston, TX and they call them "Magnet Schools" here. Specialty Centers seems to describe them better.

Skulblaka · 19 Oct 2010

We use those large screen iMac's, pretty bloody expensive, about $1500 a piece... bloody rip off...

Grimmjow · 19 Oct 2010

Around here, schools started to use Edubuntu. (Previously XP)

Jugador · 22 Oct 2010

Yeah, I've been playing around with Ubuntu. I got everything to work (music, videos, etc...), but the main problem is still getting windows programs to run. Wine is pretty cool, and I got a few apps to run. If more companies would start offering their products in Windows and Linux packaged together, people wouldn't be afraid to try the Linux version.

But, if you gotta pay for both, they're gonna go with Windows...

yowanvista · 25 Oct 2010

My school use non genuine XP SP1 on old P4 CPUs with 256-512MB of RAM