At a time of growing concern over the power of the world’s mighty tech companies, one German state is turning its back on US giant Microsoft.

In less than three months’ time, almost no civil servant, police officer or judge in Schleswig-Holstein will be using any of Microsoft’s ubiquitous programs at work.

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    26 days ago

    They have their systems only they use, therefore they can easily make them on Linux or emulate.

    Also, a lot of systems are web-based (and therefore automatically multi-platform) these days.