French police plan Windows-free jails, offices: Microsoft hasn't got a Clouseau / The Register, 30 January 2008
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/30/french_open/
Joe Fay
"The French gendarmerie has blown a big framboise at Microsoft by ditching Windows XP in favour of Ubuntu. The paramilitary police force is to switch 70,000 desktops over to the Linux OS, two years after switching its browsers to Firefox, and three years after dumping MS Office for OpenOffice. [...] In the UK, education IT agency Becta has advised schools to give Vista and Office a wide berth and to examine open source alternatives."