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Linux Love Spells Bad News for MS

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Spearheaded by the government, South Korea is making increased use of an open-source operating system called Linux. It is bad news for Microsoft, the world’s foremost software maker that dominates the operating system market with several versions of its Windows program.

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Comments (2)

ralph ·
How do you like that last line? The head of the Korea IT Industry Promotion Agency used to be in charge on Microsoft Korea. He ought to know how to get things done over there.
bstadil ·
I think this speak volumes for how bad the MS strangle hold really is. If I remember correctly Hancom is the most popular Office Suite and I think they support Linux 100%, so maybe it is not too difficult to switch.

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