Becta refers Microsoft to the Office of Fair Trading October 28, 2007
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Becta, the government’s education technology agency, has today made a complaint to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for alleged anti-competitive practices by Microsoft in the schools software marketplace and in relation to Microsoft’s approach to document interoperability……… In the interim, Becta’s advice to schools considering moving to Microsoft’s School Agreement subscription licensing model is that they should not do so. Schools must be legally licensed for all the software they are using, and if licensing Microsoft products is an imperative they should consider using a perpetual agreement such as ‘Select’ until such time as the OFT have responded to our complaint.
A summary of Becta’s position can be found here – http://news.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=34425&page=1658&catID=1633
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