UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source

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Ministers are looking at saving tens of millions of pounds a year by abandoning expensive software produced by firms such as Microsoft.

Some £200m has been spent by the public sector on the computer giant's Office suite alone since 2010.

But the Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude believes a significant proportion of that outlay could be cut by switching to software which can produce open-source files in the "open document format" (ODF), such as OpenOffice and Google Docs.

Read more: UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source (The Guardian, 29 January 2014)

Well, it's about time!

 

[ledboots]

I wish we would at my work! Windows bah humbug.