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Japan Considers Moving Away From Windows
dm24_99 writes "According to this article at Japan Today, the Japanese government is considering abandoning Microsft Windows in a plan to boost computer security within the government. The government is very interested in alternatives, especially Linux." Of course, like the bank reform being proposed, who knows when this will actually happen.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport will set up a panel of experts to study the alternatives and what systems other governments use in the next fiscal year beginning April 1, the newspaper said.
/. editors might be actually right in saying this won't happen for a long time...
For once,
Moderation: +4. Modded 70% Funny and 30% Overrated. 100% Saturated.
if they dont use windows, how will they see outside?!?
Whoa!
Bringing level headed thinking into
The Editors
Trolling is a art,
I wonder what Steve and Bill are going to do with all of those frequent flyer miles? They sure have been racking them up lately haven't they?
I heard that Walmart will give you a really neat Microtel PC for a quarter million miles.
In other news...
... Move along... nothing to see.
{insert country name} has decided to move away from Windows to [linux|bsd|QNX|opendos] due to [political|security|economic] reasons. The [OSS|GNU|Richard Stallman] is [very|GNU] happy.
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
I urge them to make sure they are ready for linux, by checking to see if they have the necessary kanji characters. One for 'Xwindows' and one for 'sucks'.
This post would have been +5 Funny if you had only left out one letter in your post.
Exactly. That's why we have global standards such as the Metric System. Any country that would use some other system would be at a great disadvantage, and would never be able to achieve any measure of economic success.
Well, in Japan corporate culture, it is a bad thing to be put in a window seat in a company... Rimshot.
There are a huge number of yeast infections in this county. Probably because we're downriver from the bread factory.
You'd think that the guys who came up with the shortest poems in the world would have been all about a smaller character set.
There's no tax on the Metric System!
I know this is bad taste, but I wonder if they'll pronounce it "Rinux."
:)
Yes, yes. I'm the insensitive clod of this topic. No offense intended
Bill: Wait! Would one...hundred...billion...dollars change you mind.
Japan: Ehhhhhh-xcellent.
Taft