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=== Educational use === In Australia, the [[New South Wales]] [[Department of Education and Training (New South Wales)|Department of Education and Training]], in partnership with [[Lenovo]], provided Year 9 (high school) students in government high schools with Lenovo S10e netbooks in 2009, Lenovo Mini 10 netbooks in 2010, Lenovo Edge 11 netbooks in 2011 and a modified Lenovo X130e netbook in 2012, each preloaded with software including [[Microsoft Office]] and [[Adobe Systems]]' Creative Suite 4. These were provided under Prime Minister [[Kevin Rudd]]'s Digital Education Revolution, or DER. The netbooks ran [[Windows 7 Enterprise]]. These netbooks were secured with Computrace Lojack for laptops that the police can use to track the device if it is lost or stolen. The NSW DET retains ownership of these netbooks until the student graduates from Year 12, when the student can keep it. The Government of Trinidad and Tobago—Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bisseser—is also providing HP laptops to form 1 Students (11-year-olds) with the same police trackable software as above. [[Greece]] provided all 13-year-old students (middle school, or ''[[Gymnasium (school)#Countries with gymnasium schools|gymnasium]]'', freshmen) and their teachers with netbooks in 2009<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalaid.gr/defaulteng.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090531183644/http://www.digitalaid.gr/defaulteng.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 31, 2009 |title=Digital Aid S.A |publisher=Digitalaid.gr |access-date=December 21, 2013}}</ref> through the "Digital Classroom Initiative". Students were given one unique coupon each, with which they redeemed the netbook of their choice, up to a β¬450 price ceiling, in participating shops throughout the country. These netbooks came bundled with localized versions of either [[Windows XP]] (or higher) or [[Open-source software|open source]] (e.g. [[Linux]]) operating systems, wired and wireless networking functionality, antivirus protection, preactivated parental controls, and an educational software package.
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