Although I do have to admit to liking MS Office (and indeed MS Office 2007 is good), I have to agree with this recommendation. There is pretty much nothing MS Office could do that OpenOffice could not do for you in a school setting - so why shell out all that money for Office licenses and force the kids parents to as well (or resort to dodgy copies) when free software is good enough. And as for Vista… Linux has my vote for schools every time.
Britain Advises Against Vista, Office 2007 for Schools: “An anonymous reader writes ‘The British government’s educational IT authority has issued a report advising schools in the country not to upgrade their classroom or office systems to Windows Vista or Office 2007. According to this InformationWeek story, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency says costs for Vista and Office 2007 ‘are significant and the benefits remain unclear.’ Instead, Becta is advising British schools to take a long look at Linux and open source suites like OpenOffice.org.”
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Just read this post on Slashdot:
“I registered a descriptive domain name (something like “thesimpledog.com”) and started a blog on it. About a month later I get a threatening letter from a link farmer who owns “simpledog.com” The owner of simpledog.com is claiming that he owns the trademark to the words simpledog even though he has no real business or rights by that name other than a static page with some text and Adsense slapped on it. There is no product, service or brand whatsoever. Does simply registering a two or three word domain give you instant trademark rights to those words even though you’ve never done anything with them? Should I give up my domain to a link farmer who is trying to bully me, or does he have a valid right to any phrase he registers that isn’t already trademarked?”
My opinion - tell him where to go. I thought the idea of a trademark was that you had to actively be using that name in a trade? He has no brand, no real business using that name (you can’t claim a static page full of AdSense links is a real business), and no product. He doesn’t have any sort of case, he’s just trying to bully the guy into give over his domain name… I hate stuff like this, when I was looking for a new domain name, every decent name I thought of was home to some troll like this. 
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