Comments on: Google Goes Back to School to Secure the Future of Its Apps http://gigaom.com/2009/07/30/google-goes-back-to-school-to-secure-the-future-of-its-apps/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:02:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Proto http://gigaom.com/2009/07/30/google-goes-back-to-school-to-secure-the-future-of-its-apps/#comment-219403 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:33:43 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61484#comment-219403 Does it? Spreadsheet skills aren’t really specific to MS Excel. I learned on Lotus in HS and all those skills transfered easily.

I really loathe the idea of teaching someone how to use SOFTWARE. We should be teaching them the skills important in spreadsheet data population and organization, not where to point-and-click in an interface. Otherwise you’re doing a disservice to both the student and the taxpayers who fund those schools.

]]> By: Jesse Kopelman http://gigaom.com/2009/07/30/google-goes-back-to-school-to-secure-the-future-of-its-apps/#comment-219402 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:06:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61484#comment-219402 You really think skills don’t transfer across similar software? When I was in school, Lotus 123 was still #1 and that’s what we learned on, but I never worked at an office that used it since then. How do you know Google Apps, or someone completely unknown at this point, won’t have surpassed MS Office in 5-10 years?

]]> By: Joe http://gigaom.com/2009/07/30/google-goes-back-to-school-to-secure-the-future-of-its-apps/#comment-219401 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:38:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61484#comment-219401 Great, this means half of the graduates we look to hire won’t be able to even put a decent spreadsheet together in Excel. Schools should look at the real world to see what they’re using to prepare their students, not bet their students’ careers on an ideal.

]]> By: majortom1981 http://gigaom.com/2009/07/30/google-goes-back-to-school-to-secure-the-future-of-its-apps/#comment-219400 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:20:41 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61484#comment-219400 The problem with google apps for education is that certain libraries and schools cant use it. We had to pay for our google apps use because we are a non 503c library. (we are still non profit though).

]]> By: Jim McNelis http://gigaom.com/2009/07/30/google-goes-back-to-school-to-secure-the-future-of-its-apps/#comment-219399 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:56:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61484#comment-219399 Ya but Google Apps is FREE and better than Zimbra. Who wants to pay for an inferior service?

]]> By: Yohann http://gigaom.com/2009/07/30/google-goes-back-to-school-to-secure-the-future-of-its-apps/#comment-219398 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:46:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61484#comment-219398 There is not only Google doing that kind of stuff to attract young people with their solution.

Zimbra is doing also very well on the education side, they’ve got few millions of users in schools, mostly in the US and the UK but they’re invading Europe right now

Their prices are very attractive, less than 2$ per year per student

It was just to let you know that Google and Microsoft are not the only one on that kind of market and they’re doing a really good job :)

]]> By: Matrix http://gigaom.com/2009/07/30/google-goes-back-to-school-to-secure-the-future-of-its-apps/#comment-219397 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:14:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=61484#comment-219397 Well…, may be this is wise decision for Google but children and teens should have Freedom of choice, which application and company to use. Microsoft in old times, made perfect applications. Right know like everything in crisis can be better…..

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