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The proposal will be voted on next week, but its passage is not guaranteed as the ruling Social Democratic Party is in coalition with the Greens and the latter party opposes the change.
At least according to Heise, Munich is currently run by an SPD/CSU coalition. The CSU in particular loves to do sweetheart deals with large companies.
I was chatting with a mate of mine about IT strategy for the next few years and it seems Microsoft has been reasonably successful in lobbying companies to give them another round. This is probably the last one before everything moves to BYOD + docking station + cloud.
The migration costs alone probably make this a zero sum game but there's no denying that it's not as easy to get support for a large Linux desktop installation as it is for Windows.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
