Source : ZDnetIn 2004, the French gendarmerie has started to abandon Microsoft, instead adopting Open Source software, replacing at that time OMS Office by OpenOffice. In 2006
it was the turn for Explorer to be replaced by Firefox. The cycle will be finished within 5 years when all their PC (70 000) will give up Windows for Ubuntu, a distribution of Linux.
The decision will have no impact on the sales of licenses by Microsoft, it represents only one tiny insect bite for the company which boasts of a sale of 400 000 OEM licenses of Vista each month in France.
[translation by crispin]
