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Thailand launch for Microsoft cloud computing
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| In an initial stage, the company will begin a pilot project in collaboration
| with Sripratum University in which students at 2,000 schools around the
| country will be able to sign-on to Live ID, allowing them to experience
| Microsoft's Live service on a cloud platform.
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http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/04/28/technology/technology_30101401.php
“They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect
sometime in the next decade.”
--Bill Gates
Russian approach antitrust and moves to Linux, so Microsoft dumps there too:
Steve Ballmer makes a long-term overseas investment for Microsoft
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| But Ballmer's appearance included something else. According to the Moscow
| Times, he also heaped praise upon local officials for their efforts in
| fighting the global recession. Never mind the Russian government's attempts
| to stabilize the Ruble by burning through its foreign currency reserves, or
| its leaders' tirades against the United States for causing the global
| economic slowdown. The Microsoft CEO praised the "amazing work the Russian
| government is doing" to boost the economy.
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http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/05/01/steve-ballmer-microsoft-russia
They also found cronies in Spain:
ES: Open source community protests national plan for school PCs
http://www.osor.eu/news/es-open-source-community-protests-national-plan-for-school-pcs
Recent:
Spanish Government to Hand Schools Over to Microsoft?
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| At the Microsoft Leaders Forum in Berlin in January, Spanish Secretary of
| State of Education, Eva Almunia, presented four students working with Tablet
| PCs, using Microsoft.
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| [...]
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| The Spanish Ministry of Education has not considered any other vendor apart
| form Microsoft, there hasn't been a public contest, and the media and other
| vendors were not informed about the pilot program until it was over.
| Furthermore, no other alternative has been considered.
|
| If the plan gets the green light, it would have dire consequences for the
| communities of Andalucía, Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura, Valencia, and all
| the other autonomous regions that already have a Linux-based IT
| infrastructures, which have already been paid for and are in use, in place
| within their school systems.
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http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/spanish_government_to_hand_schools_over_to_microsoft
Open-source software suites pre-installed in local PCs
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| In a bid to promote the wider use of open-source software in Thailand, the
| National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre (Nectec) has joined five
| local computer manufacturers to pre-install open-source software suites in
| personal computers.
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| The five companies are SVOA, D Com, Synnex (Thailand), IT Bakery and Powell
| Computer.
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| Nectec's director Pansak Siriruchatapong said Nectec was developing and
| customising open-source software suites for the local-brand PC companies,
| including the operating system Ubuntu Linux and applications such as Open
| Office, Firefox Web browser and Thunderbird e-mail software.
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http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/02/10/technology/technology_30095272.php
Related:
Thailand: Egat turns to open source to cut costs
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| There are 7,000 PC units based on Open Office or 70 per cent of all 12,000 PC
| units in the organisation.
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http://nationmultimedia.com/2007/08/28/technology/technology_30046747.php
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