I'm also interested to hear from anyone who has gone to Vista on tablets
for the same reason... I've heard that Vista is more of a native OS for
tablets, as opposed to an add-on to XP: "XP, tablet edition," but have
no hard data on this. So I'm wondering whether we should go with Vista
on our 08-09 crop of tablets (w/2Gb RAM) and keep XP for all our older
machines.
I'd echo the comments on OneNote 2007 as a huge improvement over OneNote
2003. Even if a school were sticking with Office 03, you could still run
OneNote 2007 with it. I haven't heard of any open-source alternatives to
OneNote.
I'd also agree that the switch to Office 07 is not as painful as users
might anticipate. It's pretty off-putting at first because it's not menu
driven, but the feedback I've gotten from most users once they get over
the hump (1-2 weeks of use) is that they prefer the new ease-of-use
features, like zooming, auto-preview of font changes, more intuitive
location of features, etc.=20
Looking forward to the m700,
-Demetri
Demetri Orlando
Battle Ground Academy
Franklin, TN
demetrio@battlegroundacademy.org
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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:19:13 -0600
From: Jason Hyams=20
Subject: Re: Vista & Office 2007 on new student laptops
We plan on moving our incoming students to tablet computers.
The reason for my interest in Vista is how it performs on a tablet
versus XP. The Office 2007 package ships with OneNote and our faculty
currently use
Office 2003 with OneNote.
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