[HLUG] Government wants to drop Microsoft Office for open source alternatives

[Dave Winterton]

It'll delight DEFRA they'll be able to waste millions more replacing it
instead of doing something useful


<-----Original Message-----> 
>From: Andreas T. Ege [andreas at spheniscid.net]
>Sent: 1/29/2014 5:32:34 PM
>To: herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk
>Subject: Re: [HLUG] Government wants to drop Microsoft Office for open
source alternatives
>
>Hi there,
>
>Am 29.01.2014 15:27, schrieb George DiceGeorge:
>> The government is looking to save millions in taxpayers' money by
>> dropping the "oligopoly" of Microsoft Office in favour of open source
>> alternatives such as Google Docs and Open Office.
>> 
>> That's what Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude told journalists at
a
>> government event designed to showcase new online services as part of
its
>> "digital by default" efficiency drive. It's estimated government
>> departments have spent over £200m on Microsoft Office applications
alone
>> since 2010.
>> 
>I'm sure that'll please DEFRA to no end, after they just spent millions
>on a piece of software that only runs with internet explorer and ms
>excel. :-))
>If it runs, that is. It's been rolled out with more then a years delay,
>I think we've been using it for almost a year now, and it still
performs
>worse then most beta-softwares I've ever used. :-(
>
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