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Linux-on-the-desktop pioneer Munich now considering a switch back to Windows

arstechnica.com

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The most interesting is the end:

> Microsoft announced last year that it was moving its German headquarters to Munich. This move is planned to take place in 2016. While Reiter (the city mayor) was involved in the deal that precipitated the move and describes himself as a "Microsoft fan," he says the criticism of LiMux is unrelated.

I thought so too ... can anyone reading this news not consider this is likely "a payment"?

This article is from August 2014. May want to note that in the title.

The lack of an open-source Outlook / Lotus Notes alternative IS a fact, though.

Sure, you can piece it together by using a boatload of programs, but it ain't as nice-looking and integrated like Outlook or Notes.

Notes is horrendous, though.

Couldn't you replace all of these with, say, the business version of Google Docs? Admittedly it's just transferring your allegiance to another corporate and using the browser as a thin client, but for a lot of office work it should be feasible.

I love the Notes Web Client, but the desktop versions are just... outdated.

Google Docs, Mail, Calendar etc. has the problem that the data is wandering off to a datacenter under someone else's control which makes it a no-go for anyone handling sensitive data...

Maybe what I do simply doesn't call for or benefit from such a thing, but I never have seen the appeal of a monolithic email-contacts-calendar-todo-and-more monster application. It makes for a slow, resource intensive program and a lot of dead weight if you decide that you dislike any single component (say, the calendar) and use a single-purpose alternative instead. I've never found Oulook's mail management to be anything special, either, and that ribbon thing is abominable.

Someone's never used Kontact.

At least it will make surveillance easier.

This is an old article from last year, about an offhand comment the mayor of Munich made last year.

They are not considering a switch. at all. Flagged accordingly.

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