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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. Re:Only 5% of users were using StarOffice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Excuse me but what the hell do you know? Do you have any idea just exactly what these users were doing with their word processors? NO. So sit down and shut the hell up. I guess the truth hurts - combine that with the standard kneejerk Slashdot childish mentality, and you end up with a post like yours.

  2. Re:Only 5% of users were using StarOffice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Keep trying.. It's a pathetic effort, but keep trying..

  3. Re:2+2.... by stevejsmith · · Score: -1, Troll

    I understand that you're trying to be sophisticated and European in using the European system of decimal and comma notation, however it just doesn't work in English. When you speak English, it's $3,000 (or $3000). If you want to write your posts in German or Romanian, then go ahead and write $3.000. Both otherwise, you just look like a moron who's trying to be cool but doesn't quite get it.

  4. Re:Only 5% of users were using StarOffice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    you stupid nigger, how dare you tell someone else that they aren't having a problem when you dont know anything about their situation.

    fucking linux zealot.

  5. 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.

  6. 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......

  7. 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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