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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. You must be new here. by ninja_assault_kitten · · Score: 0, Troll

    Any time someone/something switches to a MS product away from an non-MS product, they must have been doing it because they're either clueless. There can be no other possible option. Even a product was completely inferior as Star Office.

    Now carry on with your business elsewhere, and remember, Linus is lord.

  2. Re:Only 5% of users were using StarOffice by heffrey · · Score: 0, Troll

    How can this be off topic? Oh yes, it's not an OSS eulogy......

  3. Re:StarOffice too complex, more so that MS word. by jedidiah · · Score: 0, Troll

    Never had that problem and I've been running versions of StarOffice (Win32 & Linux) since it was still owned by that little German company.

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