UK government preparing to switch to AOO?

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/29/uk-government-plans-switch-to-open-source-from-microsoft-office-suite -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications https://theingots.org/community/faq#7.0 Headline points in the 2014, 2015, 2016 school league tables www.th

Re: UK government preparing to switch to AOO?

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:38 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/29/uk-government-plans-switch-to-open-source-from-microsoft-office-suite -- Nice. It sounds like the Cabinet Office Minister was talking about open standards, but that got

Re: UK government preparing to switch to AOO?

Depends on how much is rhetoric and how much gets translated into practice. I'll try and find out more and give nudges in the right direction. Two things are in our favour. Microsoft has waning importance with the rise of Google and Apple in particular and this makes people a bit less averse to