German state decides to move away from Microsoft to Linux and LibreOffice

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German state decides to move away from Microsoft to Linux and LibreOffice

www.neowin.net

Lee Duna to

[email protected]English • 7 months ago

Following a recent pilot, the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein has made the decision to move away from Microsoft products, and begin using Linux and LibreOffice on its 30,000 PCs.

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