UK Officials Move to Linux, Dump Microsoft

In response to the call for cost-cutting, from David Cameron, Prime Minister, the U.K. government staff suggested replacing operating systems on computers with free Linux (Linux data recovery recommended), instead of Microsoft Windows.

Last month, Cameron asked the 600,000 government workers to make suggestions on how to save money and how to resolve the budget deficit. George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, recently published 56,000 submitted ideas up to now, which including abandoning Microsoft and centralizing stationery procurement.

"In order to cutting down expenses, why not to give up Microsoft product and move to Linux and open-source software such as OpenOffice? " many officials suggested.

Open-source software such as Linux and OpenOffice (OpenOffice search recommended) offer free service and can be used to take place of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office, the world's most popular operating system and productivity software.

"We need to follow the example of businesses all over the world and try to take advantage of open-source technology," Osborne very approves of this idea and wrote in The Times of London early in February 2009.

UK announced that they are now asking the public to seek for opinions for how the government should save money to narrow the 155-billion-pound ($235 billion) budget shortfall. While, whether to use open-source product to replace Microsoft Windows and Office still needs further discussion.

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