 | Europe's open-source option:cheap and secure Alarm bells rang at Microsoft headquarters when executives got wind that the information technology department of the West Yorkshire Police Department in northern England was considering replacing Windows with Linux, wrote Ben Hunt and Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Financial Times on January 22, 2003.
Alarm bells rang at Microsoft headquarters when executives got wind that the information technology department of the West Yorkshire Police Department in northern England was considering replacing Windows with Linux, the article reads.
Microsoft even placed a concerned call to its UK office to ask about the software preferences of the 7,500-strong police force.
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