Published at LXer:

This is not the usual Linux/Mac fanboy “Microsoft is Dead, Long Live [insert OS of choice here]” rant. Microsoft is a multikajillion (yes, I am a math teacher) dollar giant and it isn’t going anywhere any time soon. However, I think it has some pretty significant obstacles ahead of it in the Ed Tech market which just might have a ripple effect in the years to come. It’s been noted before that I should alert readers to my pro-open source biases, so here you go: I am biased towards open source solutions for education wherever they make practical, financial, technical, and pedagogical sense. You have been warned.

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