{"id":239914,"date":"2017-11-27T13:17:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T11:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=239914"},"modified":"2017-11-27T13:19:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T11:19:07","slug":"munich-ditches-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/239914-munich-ditches-linux.html","title":{"rendered":"Munich ditches Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Munich is dropping Linux and moving to Windows.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/11\/26\/linux-pioneer-munich-switches-to-windows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Engadget<\/strong><\/a>, the decision comes after Linux became the operating system of choice for the city in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Munich now plans to install Windows 10 on 29,000 city council PCs from 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will also be a pilot where Munich runs Office 2016 in virtual machines,&#8221; stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that &#8220;complaints about IT performance&#8221; were part of the reason for the switch.<\/p>\n<p>The city said it will cost around $58 million to roll out Windows 10.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/239882-amazon-launches-cloud-based-3d-editor.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Amazon launches cloud-based 3D editor<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Munich is dropping Linux and moving to Windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":193098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1799,807],"class_list":["post-239914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-linux","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239916,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239914\/revisions\/239916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}