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Met Office cuts off Linux users with new weather widgets

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For why does weatherman hate penguins? Something in the AIR Linux users face increased inconvenience getting a weather forecast from March onwards when the Met Office will withdraw its web-based weather gadgets and replace them with desktop widgets – for Windows and Mac only.…

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I thought this was yet another proprietary office software suite, but it turns out it's some kind of weather service with a very odd name.
Met = Meteorology. The UK Meteorology Office predates Microsoft Office by more than a century.

This story is largely a non-issue. The Adobe widgets for Linux were withdrawn last year, and the remaining ones work as well as can be expected; i.e. very badly.

Most Linux weather widgets get their UK feeds via the BBC and have been unaffected.

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