[BadVista Advocate] Windows Vista in Portugal

[Nuno J. Silva]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:44:14 -0400
rek2GNU/Linux <rek2 at binaryfreedom.info> wrote:

> Ringo Kamens wrote:
> > If you can give us contacts for Portugese officials, we can start an
> > anti-vista letter/call campaign.
> > Comrade Ringo Kamens
> >
> > O
> Yes indeed we can help, but still we need local people, for
> translations and
> personal means.. personal contacts..
> 
> so if t hey are willing  to let us help them... we will fight with
> them.
> 

I've sent a message to the ANSOL list linking this thread, so this will
be discussed in the next days (at least I hope that :-).

I got also one reply saying that, accordingly to other information
source, the operating system will be Windows XP.

I found no article saying that, but I found another page[1] saying it
will be Vista. And this is from the "Plano Tecnologico" (technological
plan) homepage.

"Better": this page presents "Curriculum Microsoft de Literacia
Digital" (Microsoft Digital Literacy Curriculum, in a free
translation), and says that Microsoft will, in the agreement, made that
"knowledge" available to "everyone" trough a public site[2].

Nice. I enter the site and click on "Iniciar este curso" (start this
course). Strange. The only content is an error message complaining
about a non up-to-date MSIE version...


Fortunately we have also good news: the ministry of education is
going to give every school access to a /Moodle/ e-learning
platform[3].


(And, again, everything is in portuguese. Two of these sites have
enlish versions, but the articles I'm linking have no translation.)
[1]
<http://www.planotecnologico.pt/InnerPage.aspx?idCat=19&idMasterCat=17&idLang=1&idContent=1481&idLayout=6&site=planotecnologico>
[2] <www.literaciadigital.pt>
[3]
<http://www.portugal.gov.pt/Portal/PT/Governos/Governos_Constitucionais/GC17/Ministerios/ME/Comunicacao/Notas_de_Imprensa/20070613_ME_Com_Ensino_Online.htm>
-- 
Nuno J. Silva
Lisbon, Portugal
Homepage: <http://njsg.no.sapo.pt/> & <http://palpatine.hopto.org/>
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