Swiss boot out Linux in favour of Windows 7

Sep 23, 2010, 11:03 (13 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by John E Dunn)

"The government in the Swiss region of Solothurn has reportedly confirmed that it will turn to Windows 7 after hitting problems in a long-running desktop Linux migration project.

"According to third-party Internet sources, the plan, whose origins go back as far as 2001, had been for the canton to have deployed Debian GNU/Linux distribution for desktop users, backed up by OpenOffice, the Scalix email system, Firefox and a number of KDE desktop applications."

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