The EU is fed up with Microsoft trying to *remotely administer* our IT industry and the finances of our continent. Their meddling in ISO to get their *OOXML* travesty recongnized was the last straw. Actually, suing TomTom was the very last straw.

Vive la Ubuntu libre! Rejeter Microsoft!

npviewer.bin is a "quality product" of Adobe.
it's flash player .
It always was far from perfect on linux.
But i have to admit, the 64bit version is much better.
You can try open source plugins. I still prefer Adobe's flash player since at least it gives full functionality.

I would imagine the White House would crack it's whip and Downing Street would come to heel. MS would get the business from the UK gov't.

I don't know what npviewer is, but I'm having to close it a few times per day using top. I'll hear my laptop fan get louder and I'll think to myself,"npviewer."

It's like a curse.

I'll shortly be installing CentOS on this laptop, just so my two computers will match up.

That they looked at the long term benefits of software which they can control. We all benefit when public agencies save money.

MS is really shooting themselves in the foot with their workstation software policies of forced upgrades and proprietary file formats.

I hope this story gets through to the UK gov. With the recession and insane public debt they should be trying to save all the money they can.

http://www.noiv.nl/files/xavier_guimard_05032009.pdf
The presentation in French.
So happy to see the Gendarme to be FREE.

I wonder what sort of deal Microsoft will offer the French in order to try and get them back on board.