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Many european gov'ts have been ditching MS Office for LibreOffice, and in some rarer cases Windows for Linux. Italy https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/italia

• vanderZwan 7y ago
  I wonder how much these development may have motivated the recent change in attitude towards open source and Linux at Microsoft. I mean even if it had they'd never publicly acknowledge that, since it would be seen as a sign of weakness (and give more free press to the competition in a way)
  • gnode 7y ago
    I think the main reason Microsoft has become more Linux friendly is that it is crucial to the success of Azure, which has become a major part of Microsoft's business.
• danieldk 7y ago
  the army aims to replace all MS Office installations by the end of the year. Seeing is believing. This has often been used as a strategy to get license discounts from Microsoft.
  • gmueckl 7y ago
    License discounts have been Microsofts strategy to persuade organizations to stay.