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Scottish Police Revert to Microsoft Office

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the back-on-the-crack dept.

LordGuha writes "The Central Scotland Policy is removing StarOffice and replacing it with Microsoft Office citing lower maintenance and running costs and greater integration with other departments. According to the article StarOffice was implemented in 2000 when the department was low in cash but lately have estimated that the Microsoft software would cost no more and lead to greater efficiencies."

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  1. In other news... by sYn+pHrEAk · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news, math skills of Scottish police reported to be at an all time low.

  2. Re:Only 5% of users were using StarOffice by Ithika · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, I can't stand the fact that everyone feels the need to use hugely overblown packages to do everything. Your idea seems pretty elegant, and with a bit of regexp-ing could probably be seamlessly integrated with a TeX-based system too for beautiful output. And the coppers wouldn't even have to look outside their browsers.

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  3. Re:Only 5% of users were using StarOffice by Mick+Ohrberg · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just install vi for Windows and teach them the importance of :q!, dd, :set ts=3 and other commands.

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  4. Microsoft must have a hell of a sales team... by mikeophile · · Score: 4, Funny

    If they can talk the frugal out a Scotsman.

    /part Scot, the stereotype is well deserved

  5. Re:Only 5% of users were using StarOffice by cdrudge · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nah. It cuts down on useless government paperwork.

  6. Ach, laddie! by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why dinnae they switch to ScotsOffice? Microsoft, Open, whatever Office you use, if it's not Scottish, it's CRAP!

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  7. Re:Only 5% of users were using StarOffice by mr_gerbik · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, I can't stand the fact that everyone feels the need to use hugely overblown packages to do everything. Your idea seems pretty elegant, and with a bit of regexp-ing could probably be seamlessly integrated with a TeX-based system too for beautiful output. ...

      You even have your choice of a wide variety of WYSIWYG web editors [geniisoft.com] if you need formatting capability.

    Two comments deep and you have already gone from a simple text editor to a big piece of bloated software...