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Time’s Up: Districts Prepare for Life After Windows Server 2003

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Frank Smith Learn from these tips and success stories on migrating from Windows Server 2003 after Microsoft pulls the plug on support.

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End of Support for Microsoft Server 2003 Puts Heat on K-12 Districts

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Microsoft's support for Windows Server 2003 ends this week, putting districts that have not upgraded to a newer system at risk of viruses and other derailments.

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Apple and Microsoft Now Offer $100 Styluses. But Do Schools Need—or Want—Them?

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Microsoft does, too, and various pens from third-party manufacturers are beginning to dot the touchscreen Chromebook market. Microsoft was one of the first big tech companies to market styluses to schools. “I, Rob Baker is the director of technology at Cincinnati Country Day School in Ohio and a Microsoft stylus enthusiast.

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Insight works with education leaders on Microsoft Server security

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Public Sector team will speak to the risks of failing to address the pending end of service for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference. Microsoft research in 2014 reported that 23.8 million instances of Windows Server 2003 were running on 11.9

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Learn where menu and toolbar commands are in Office 2010 and related products

Educational Technology Guy

I just found another great resource on Microsoft Office. We are transitioning from Office 2003 to Office 2010 and, as many of you know, there are major menu changes in terms of where commands are located. Microsoft has a great site that has tutorials and interactive guides to find where the commands are in Office 2010 products.

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Google Docs can import old Office Formats, but exports them as new format

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Google Docs will no longer export files into the old Microsoft Office Formats (.doc,xls,ppt). This may cause a little bit of an issue with some users, including schools still stuck in Windows XP and Office 2003 or earlier. Google Docs Google for Educators Microsoft Office' doc,xls,ppt). Follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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New Markets Venture Partners Adds $30 Million, Former Gates Foundation Executive to Edtech Fund

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His career also includes stops at Microsoft, Schoolnet and Kaplan. New Markets has supported 43 companies since its launch in 2003; edtech startups make more than 90 percent of its deals in the past five years, Palmer adds. The Fulton, Md.-based based firm plans to raise up to $75 million, of which $30 million has been secured.

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