Malaysia & Microsoft (WAS: Putin says Russia's government to migrate to OSS)

One of the biggest problems has been user resistance: they simply don't want to swap from Windows.

That's precisely what Microsoft bet on in Malaysia where former Prime Minster Mahathir announced that the government would migrate to Linux and other open source software. Within weeks, schools were given a variety of Microsoft product. That resistance to change is powerful especially when started young.

Now, five years later, government departments still do not accept documents in OpenOffice.Org.