They don't say how the first NT lab in the department was unused for almost a year. The Xterm lab would be full with people waiting for a terminal, and you would go down stair to the PC lab with the NT machines and there wouldn't be a person there. Some of asked about running linux dual boot on them. No can do. Stick linux on a PC and no free money.
Some grad students run linux on their personal machines, but NO linux labs.
Against MS policy. For my first 3 years here I did everything in unix, on my linux machine, from home. It's clear that the department has actually gone out of it's way to insure that students don't just choose NT, but that they have no choice in the matter at all. I was thinking about graduate school, but now I wouldn't go here if they paid me. The curriculum, professors, and systems are barely adequate for real learning.