Qld Education Dept picks Win7 too

The Queensland Department of Education will be installing Windows 7 on all of its computers within the next 12 months.

Staff within the department itself, as well as the teachers and students within schools will have their operating system rolled over from the current Windows XP to Windows 7, a spokesperson for the Department told ZDNet.com.au.

It will be a massive roll-out, with 80,000 staff and thousands of students and teacher laptops — over 35,000 laptops have already been allocated in rounds one and two of the Digital Education Revolution and a similar number is being rolled out to teachers under the state's $70 million computers in schools program.

The NSW Department of Education was the first to announce it would implement Windows 7 in its department and recently said that all the students would also be running the operating systems on their new laptops received under the government scheme.

The two planned roll-outs have given Microsoft's new opus some traction in the market, only weeks after it went gold.