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  France Challenges Microsoft in Software Re-Fit
Time: 11:42 EST/16:42 GMT | News Source: Washington Post | Posted By: Brian Kvalheim

France's cash-strapped government is giving alternative software firms the chance to win state business from Microsoft in a pioneering drive to challenge the U.S. software giant in the public sector. Civil service minister Renaud Dutreil told Reuters France wanted to use "open-source" software providers to resupply part of the almost one million state computers under a government cost-cutting drive designed to trim a bulging public deficit.

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