Google Gears = no more Office/OpenOffice for students | Education IT | ZDNet.com

@ Google Gears = no more Office/OpenOffice for students | Education IT | ZDNet.com:

"Every day, I look for ways to make the OS less relevant and make kids’ work accessible to them anytime, anywhere. I can’t do this just yet for my secretaries and some serious power users. They rely at least on the full feature set (or a significant subset) of OpenOffice, and a select few are using Office 2007/2008 for all it’s worth (detractors aside, it’s worth quite a lot)."

Google + Cloud Content + Dell, et al = deep shit for textbook publishers.