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Becta Takes Microsoft Complaint to EC

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 14, 2008

[ Thanks to Jose_X
for this link. ]

“Becta, the organisation that advises the UK government on
educational IT, has escalated its complaint over the
interoperability of Microsoft’s products to the European
Commission.

“Monday’s announcement has already drawn praise from some of the
same players in the open-source community who, little more than a
year ago, criticised Becta for being too closely aligned with
Microsoft…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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