From the Dark Side--Microsoft Office Dumped by Singapore Defense Ministry

In a defensive move against being ripped off and improving security, the Defense Ministry of Singapore said this week that it's turning to the OpenOffice application suite rather than updating its older versions of Microsoft Office. With some 20,000 PCs, the Singapore Defense Ministry is so far the largest government entity to adopt open source software in place of its older M$ software.


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