does your school use windows 7?

[AussieGuy92]

since windows 7 has been out for a while does your school/education facility use windows 7 or vista? mines does not they still downgrade to xp it is a shame since all the computer lessons are on a outdated OS.

 

[Topi]

The schools I know in Finland all have Windows XP. There probably are exceptions, but still I would say that the most used OS is XP.

It's bad thing for students. I think they need the newest platform for learning. There is no idea to teach to do all things with XP because it will get outdated soon.

 

[Jugador]

Hi...not trying to start an argument, but was just curious. What is it you can't do on the schools computer, that you could do if the OS was win7?

 

[fseal]

W7 has all kinds of improved functionality under the hood. Many more built in command-line options for adminning and IT in general. More networking options, tons more UI options for coding. A brand new "Media Foundation" that is replacing DirectX.

All those things should be learned NOW by students if they want to get jobs in IT or programming Windows in the future...

 

[Tews]

Windows???? My school didn't have electricity, much less computers...

 

[The Howling Wolves]

The school I worked in Tews, had bars and razor wire.
It was called a "School of Hardnocks!" It was a prison for some of the worst of the worst!
Quite an eye opener.

 

[Tews]

Sounds like the School of Just Deserts ....

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Sounds like the School of Just Deserts ....

More like a School of Misfits and Gangbanger's!

 

[Jugador]

W7 has all kinds of improved functionality under the hood. Many more built in command-line options for adminning and IT in general. More networking options, tons more UI options for coding. A brand new "Media Foundation" that is replacing DirectX.

All those things should be learned NOW by students if they want to get jobs in IT or programming Windows in the future...

Yeah, I can see how Win7 would be a benefit for an IT Tech. But, I don't necessarily agree that "all those things should be learned NOW by the students". I think the curriculum should focus on the necessities (math, literature, music, etc), and let the student decide later if he wants to pursue a career in IT.

 

[fseal]

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.

 

[Kirsch]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[Grimmjow]

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

 

[Jugador]

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]

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