Because the only person with less of a clue than the civil servants is the teachers. Seems like Balmer et al have not been sending enough pretty young things from Microsoft Marketing to take the becta folk out for wine and hookers. Does anyone here believe that becta actually have a crack team of geeks who evaluate software to make recommendations on or do you guys all get the fact that this is all just leverage to get a better deal out of M$ now that they are not throwing their expense accounts at becta decision makers.