IT at Vienna's municipal authority, according to the ORF's report." Ezekiel Guest Posts: n/a 's Computer Specifications 21st Feb 2009 "Doctor Smith" &lt;(E-Mail Removed)&gt; wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)... &gt; http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1...9\\... &gt; &gt; Welcome to the real world where trying to use Linux is like trying to fit &gt; a &gt; square peg in a round hole. &gt; &gt; &gt; "Vienna hobbles open-source migration &gt; &gt; In a setback for the City of Vienna's three-year-old open-source &gt; migration &gt; programme, city authorities decided on Wednesday to scrap most of the &gt; systems that have so far adopted the city's custom-built Linux &gt; distribution, instead approving an 8m migration to Windows Vista. &gt; &gt; The Vienna district council on Wednesday formally approved a budget of &gt; 8m &gt; (6.3m) for migrating Windows 2000 systems to Vista and Office 2007, &gt; according to a report from sterreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), the Austrian &gt; national public service broadcaster. &gt; &gt; The Vista migration will include 720 kindergarten systems that had been &gt; migrated to Wienux, a Debian-based Linux distribution developed &gt; internally &gt; by the city's IT body. &gt; &gt; "This is a major setback to the city's Linux migration," said Marie &gt; Ringler, a member of the district council and representative of the &gt; Vienna &gt; Green Party, according to the report. &gt; &gt; A key factor in the rollback decision is software used in a kindergarten &gt; language-learning programme called 'Schlaumuse', which requires Internet &gt; Explorer, according to city officials quoted in