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Microsoft Is Now Irrelevant To Computing, And They Want You To Know It

Charlie Demerjian | SemiAccurate | May 15, 2014

With two major cave-ins in the past few weeks, Microsoft is screaming at the top of its lungs about how irrelevant it is. If you didn’t understand the fall of Microsoft from powerful monopolist to computing afterthought, let SemiAccurate explain it to you...

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Open Source Push in the UK 'Could Save Taxpayer Millions'

Matthew Sparkes | The Telegraph | January 30, 2014

The [UK] Government is investigating how open source software could be adopted to save tens of millions of pounds a year and make communication between departments easier.  Since 2010 government departments have spent £200m on Microsoft Office alone, claimed Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude in a speech yesterday.

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