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Microsoft dials down school software audit demands
Cara Branigan, Associate Editor, eSchool News

Software giant Microsoft Corp. is working to ease the hard feelings sparked by an aggressive anti-piracy campaign aimed at schools. The campaign, which Microsoft now acknowledges was ill-timed, has prompted at least a few school officials in Oregon and Washington to consider switching to free, open-source software programs. The 24 largest districts in those states received letters in April asking them to complete an audit of all Microsoft software on their computers within 60 days....


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