Linux Pioneer Munich Confirms Switch To Windows 10 (techrepublic.com)

The German city of Munich, once seen as a open-source pioneer, has decided to return to Windows. Windows 10 will be rolled out to about 29,000 PCs at the city council, a major shift for an authority that has been running Linux for more than a decade. From a report: Back in 2003 the council decided to to switch to a Linux-based desktop, which came to be known as LiMux, and other open-source software, despite heavy lobbying by Microsoft. But now Munich will begin rolling out a Windows 10 client from 2020, at a cost of about Euro 50m ($59.6m), with a view to Windows replacing LiMux across the council by early 2023. Politicians who supported the move at a meeting of the full council today say using Windows 10 will make it easier to source compatible applications and hardware drivers than it has been using a Linux-based OS, and will also reduce costs associated with running Windows and LiMux PCs side-by-side.

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Re:Strang Timing

[Desler]

The best chance Linux has of taking of is when support for Windows 7 ends in 2020.

But it won’t just like it didn't when XP support ended or when Vista bombed out. But, hey, this time it’s gotta work, right?

Re:Strang Timing

[ITRambo]

In the past decade Linux on desktop/laptop use has gone from 0.8% to ~2%. At this rate it'll only take about 900 more years to totally replace Windows on the desktop.