Microsoft 'Loves' Linux in Munich



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Investigation of the IT system of Munich by Accenture (10MB PDF, 450 pages, German) [Ed: See the comments here. Microsoft uses its old proxy, Accenture, to bamboozle politicians who don’t know a thing about GNU/Linux]
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Linux pioneer Munich poised to ditch open source and return to Windows
Politicians at open-source champion Munich will next week vote on whether to abandon Linux and return to Windows by 2021.
The city authority, which made headlines for ditching Windows, will discuss proposals to replace the Linux-based OS used across the council with a Windows 10-based client.
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Munich city now planning to move ALL their Linux desktops back to Windows
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Windows Close to Defeating Linux: Munich Could Give Up on LiMux
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Let’s Chat: Windows vs. Linux
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City of Munich wants to end open source desktop
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Microsoft's next Windows RT
Maybe this is a signal that it's time for Microsoft to retire the "Windows" label. Sure, Microsoft probably does want to shift it's operating system into the Cloud (whether or not that's a good thing, I'll leave that to you) but keeping the "Windows" label will hold them back. Learn from the disaster of "Windows RT" where users quickly discovered that while it looked like Windows and felt like Windows, you couldn't install "Windows" applications on it. With a new name, Microsoft can shift user expectations.
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