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Story: MP attacks government over Microsoft policy

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Posted by: andrewdonoghue (Wednesday 10 October 2007, 2:07 PM)

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Newham: the Sith Lords' homeplanet?

Nice Star Wars/Newham reference. For those who don't know Newham council was the UK local authority that famously flirted with open source but then became big supporters of Microsoft.

UK councils dump Windows for Linux
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,2135726,00.htm

Interestingly - Computer Weekly dug-up a story that Newham have had to delay their Vista upgrade because of a lack of enterprise ready apps - that'll learn 'em.

Lack of third-party apps delays Newham's Vista roll-out
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/09/25/226960/lack-of-third-party-apps-delays-newhams-vista-roll-out.htm

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