Themi, give me vacuous rhetoric over divisiveness, deceit and dereliction of duties (on many key issues) any day.

daggett - I had wondered about the O/S issue too - while a self-confessed MS user (largely because that's where the job opportunities have been), I agree that imposing Wintel machines would be a mistake. But is there any information indicating that this will be the case? And presumably it's decided on a school-by-school basis?