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> Indian government computers are still running windows 7 or so and its hard to get them to switch to Linux.

In many ways, switching from Win7 to Linux is more convenient than going with Win 10 and more recent MS products. This is a significant opportunity where real change might be possible.

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Many departments in Indian govt using CentOS

How so? Who is going to rewrite decades worth of software to run on linux?

Win7 software tends to run quite well in Wine. Of course some things like document/spreadsheet macros are more problematic, but those are not that common and can be rewritten.

Almost everything is web now. Have friends in TCS, and they get a lot of government contracts.

Almost everything is accessed through web GUIs nowadays.

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