The French Gendarmerie has arranged an unexpected surprise to Microsoft, giving up Windows XP in favor of Ubuntu, - informs The Register.
The police are going to transfer 70.000 computers Linux OS, two years after switching to the Firefox browser, and after a three-year experience with OpenOffice, instead of the office of Microsoft Office.
According to Agence France -Presse, Colonel Nicolas Jeroen, Deputy Director, Department of IT- department, said that these changes will be gradual. Five of the eight thousand cars will be transferred to a new operating system this year, the rest will implement Linux in 4 years.
Jeroen has called all the known reasons for the transition to the new operating system: the ability to work with various developers, reducing costs and gaining control over the software. He said that the move to free software saved their department 7 million euros a year.
At the moment, the gendarmerie is the largest state organization, which started using open source. The French National Assembly passed on the use of Ubuntu in the past year.
In the UK, we recall, the educational agency Becta IT- recommended schools not to use Vista and Office and seriously engage in open source learning.
For its part, Microsoft is trying to prevent with all the transition of clients from the public sector to other operating systems and has achieved some success in changing the views of some members of the public sector.
However, representatives of the company was hard to convince users to switch to the best example of the operating system, Vista.
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