Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Britain is planning to leave MS Office and move to open source

Britain is planning to leave MS Office and move to open source

British ministries are looking to provide tens of millions of money annually through the abandonment of expensive software produced by Microsoft Corporation .

Britain says it can reduce a large proportion of expenditure during the transition to open source software , or software that can produce files open source (open document format - ODF) , such as OpenOffice and LibreOffice and Goolgle Docs.

It is set formats ( formats ) documents so that they are unified and standardized across Britain to help break what it calls the " oligopoly " and improve communication between the civil servants .

" We want to see a greater range of software used , up to enable civil servants to access the information they need and that they can get their work done without having to buy software licenses . "

This will help government departments to share documents and documents with each other simply .

Still many countries around the world turn to open source and proprietary software denouncing .

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