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Japan Considers Moving Away From Windows

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the like-a-slow-moving-dinosaur-is-the-LDP dept.

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.

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  1. Japansese Language Support is needed the most by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    KDE supports Japanese very well, but HOW do you get a japanesee console, i havent seen this, does anyone know any more about this.

  2. Re:Payola by DerFeuervogel · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Moderat Up Insightfull.

  3. Not exactly... by vga_init · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Have you ever seen a Japanese keyboard? Most of them have a mixture of both English character as well as Kana, characters that the Japanese use to write phonetically. You didn't actually think they had a single button for every Kanji character, did you?