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German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating (arstechnica.com)

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Schleswig-Holstein, one of Germany’s 16 states, on Wednesday confirmed plans to move tens of thousands of systems from Microsoft Windows to Linux. The announcement follows previously established plans to migrate the state government off Microsoft Office in favor of open source LibreOffice.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 days ago (3 children)

In 2018, journalistic group Investigate Europe released a video documentary via German public television network ARD that claimed that the majority of city workers were satisfied with the operating system, with council members insinuating that the reversal was a personally motivated decision by lord mayor Dieter Reiter. Reiter denied that he had initiated the reversal in gratitude for Microsoft moving its German headquarters from Unterschleißheim back to Munich.

Maybe MS will have to move again.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

MS Will do anything to get back. Huge discounts, lobbying, corruption. Whatever it takes to dominate the market.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Except actually improving their products.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Microsoft: Am I out of touch? No, it's the users who are wrong.