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I think there were (and are) attempts of replacing at least the desktop systems with some variant of Linux but I think the dependency on Office remains the main problem in doing so - Windows lets you integrate all that pretty seamlessly with how the system works and is administered.

China is probably much more aggressive in this than Europe as for them the US has been a rival (or even enemy) for a long time.




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