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What Is Windows Lite? It's Microsoft's Chrome OS Killer

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Re: What Is Windows Lite? It's Microsoft's Chrome OS Killer

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zapzupnz wrote: post #8
amanzi wrote: post #7

Apart from the stupid clickbait title, this is an interesting article. Not sure what it's like in other countries but here in NZ Chromebooks have become the de-facto education laptop/platform. But the underlying OS is almost the unimportant bit - the key is the Google Apps Education platform and how well it works for both students and teachers. Even if (and that's a big if) this Windows Lite OS was successful and man…

Source: I'm a digital technology teacher in NZ. The Ministry of Education and Microsoft have an arrangement whereby all public schools have free access to Office 365 for Education, including online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Teams as a replacement for Classroom; Forms as a replacement for … well, forms; PowerApps and Flow as a replacement for App Maker; and five free licences per student for the desktop and…

Ah - interesting. I'm curious to know how well the core apps stack up from the kids' perspectives. I watch my kids collaborating on slide decks with other kids and am amazed at what they come up with. My understanding is that the Office apps aren't as good for online collaboration, but perhaps the Education ones are more optimised for that?

Re: What Is Windows Lite? It's Microsoft's Chrome OS Killer

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Post by zapzupnz »

amanzi wrote: post #13
zapzupnz wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Source: I'm a digital technology teacher in NZ. The Ministry of Education and Microsoft have an arrangement whereby all public schools have free access to Office 365 for Education, including online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Teams as a replacement for Classroom; Forms as a replacement for … well, forms; PowerApps and Flow as a replacement for App Maker; and five free licences per student for the desktop and…

Ah - interesting. I'm curious to know how well the core apps stack up from the kids' perspectives. I watch my kids collaborating on slide decks with other kids and am amazed at what they come up with. My understanding is that the Office apps aren't as good for online collaboration, but perhaps the Education ones are more optimised for that?

The online collab's fairly solid. The education edition is the same as the regular one, it's just a question of what features come with the licence. The education licence is actually pretty darn good, it has pretty much everything except business analytics. Certainly more than the home licences.

Re: What Is Windows Lite? It's Microsoft's Chrome OS Killer

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Post by belltaco »

amanzi wrote: post #7

Apart from the stupid clickbait title, this is an interesting article. Not sure what it's like in other countries but here in NZ Chromebooks have become the de-facto education laptop/platform. But the underlying OS is almost the unimportant bit - the key is the Google Apps Education platform and how well it works for both students and teachers. Even if (and that's a big if) this Windows Lite OS was successful and man…

I think at this point, 'X killer' means it attempts to work like or is a substitute for X rather than something intended to 'kill' it.

Re: What Is Windows Lite? It's Microsoft's Chrome OS Killer

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Post by tracker1 »

amanzi wrote: post #13
zapzupnz wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Source: I'm a digital technology teacher in NZ. The Ministry of Education and Microsoft have an arrangement whereby all public schools have free access to Office 365 for Education, including online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Teams as a replacement for Classroom; Forms as a replacement for … well, forms; PowerApps and Flow as a replacement for App Maker; and five free licences per student for the desktop and…

Ah - interesting. I'm curious to know how well the core apps stack up from the kids' perspectives. I watch my kids collaborating on slide decks with other kids and am amazed at what they come up with. My understanding is that the Office apps aren't as good for online collaboration, but perhaps the Education ones are more optimised for that?

Can't speak from a kid's perspective... but as an adult O365, and the related apps (MS Teams in particular) are leaps and bounds better than the Google options.

Re: What Is Windows Lite? It's Microsoft's Chrome OS Killer

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Post by tracker1 »

I think MS should probably just abandon the "Windows" moniker for this OS... call it XBox Laptop, hell "Surface Lite" would be a better name. No windows name as part of it at all. People have expectations with Windows, that it will run all their stuff... different brand would make it easier.

Re: What Is Windows Lite? It's Microsoft's Chrome OS Killer

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Post by amanzi »

tracker1 wrote: post #17
amanzi wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah - interesting. I'm curious to know how well the core apps stack up from the kids' perspectives. I watch my kids collaborating on slide decks with other kids and am amazed at what they come up with. My understanding is that the Office apps aren't as good for online collaboration, but perhaps the Education ones are more optimised for that?

Can't speak from a kid's perspective... but as an adult O365, and the related apps (MS Teams in particular) are leaps and bounds better than the Google options.

Yeah, I use Office 365 extensively and have used Google Apps extensively in the past. Office 365 is definitely more suited to corporate-type work and I personally prefer Office 365, but I just feel like the Google Apps interface and features work better for kids. And the Google Apps realtime collaboration features still beat the Office 365 apps hand down.
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