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Old 02-23-2012, 10:30 PM   #1
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LXer: VA could give MS Office the boot


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With an eye on reducing ongoing software costs, the Veterans Affairs Department said it is exploring alternatives to Microsoft Corp.’s longstanding Office Suite productivity software that has dominated federal desktops for two decades. The VA currently owns and operates the 2003, 2007 and 2010 versions of Office, which include Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and which are being used by more than 300,000 VA employees. Use of the integrated software suite has provided for interoperability between the VA’s many units.

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If they were really smart they would dump Windows.

Why point thousands, or more likely millions of $ for an office program when Libre/Open Office is 'free' and works just as well.
 
  


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