Taiwan Government to lessen reliance on Microsoft software

Taiwan Government to lessen reliance on Microsoft software

Software giants Microsoft face more opposition in future adoption of their software applications. Now, the parliament of Taiwan has voted and passed a resolution, which would lessen the government’s reliance on software products developed by Microsoft. The government has been told to reduce purchases from the software giant by 25 percent this year.

This resolution was passed on Friday and is aimed to end the domination of Microsoft products in the software application used by the government bodies in the country. However, experts have claimed that the decision might not be effective in the real world as it runs against fair trade regulations in Taiwan.

This happens to be just the latest case of Microsoft facing opposition from government bodies in the Asian countries, which are continuing to show their preference for open source applications. Recently, the company was fined 33 billion won (£58 million) for violating fair trade laws in South Korea. They were also told to make available two separate variants of their Windows Operating System in the country.

The company is also facing similar problems in countries like Japan and China. China has shown massive interest in moving to Open Source alternatives like Linux.