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New York New York makes a move.
New York City has put the squeeze on Microsoft, negotiating a bulk software purchase that should lower technology costs for the city and give government workers access to more modern applications. Instead of having dozens of agencies buy business software from Microsoft, New York has set up a citywide, 100,000-person deal that it says will save $50 million over five years. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, announced the agreement Wednesday morning at City Hall, hailing it as a “first of its kind” arrangement with a value of about $20 million a year. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/te...soft.html?_r=1 |
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New York New York makes a move.
Instead of having dozens of agencies buy business software from Microsoft,
New York has set up a citywide, 100,000-person deal that it says will save $50 million over five years. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, announced the agreement Wednesday morning at City Hall, hailing it as a “first of its kind” arrangement with a value of about $20 million a year. Let's see what they say next year when they have to buy updates. Probably before these are all installed. I'm still ****ed about my $900 MS Office 97 Developer Edition, which I'm still using! It's a tad crippled, but it works. Some lessons are hard to learn. BTW, it all works in Win7, except a few glitches in mouse control in spread sheets, just annoying, not bad. I moved my spread sheets to Open Office, work great, but OE does not import Access DB's well. OE's word processing and spread sheets are VERY impressive, but the DB program needs work. Access 97 is still better than the latest OE replacement, but I'll keep hoping, and trying to get my $900 worth in the mean time. Grumble, grumble. Cheers, Wizzzer |
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