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prospectacle writes about another possible shift from Win XP to Linux:
"With Microsoft ceasing to support Windows XP, the Tamil Nadu state government has advised its departments to switch to Bharat Operating System Solutions, also known as BOSS Linux.
BOSS Linux is developed by India's "National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software", which is financed by their Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. BOSS supports national languages including Bengali, Telugu, and Tamil.
Why would you develop your own entire operating system when you can just buy the newest version from Microsoft?"
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by SuddenOutbreak on Monday March 24 2014, @02:54PM
The wiki page says they've got a population of over 70 million. A quick envelope calculation says that if they've got one police officer for every 668 people, they've got over 100K police alone. This might hint at the total size of government. (The US has just under a million people authorized to make an arrest, so ~1:400 for us.)
If they've got a large enough employee base, then developing in-house makes quite a bit more sense. Newer versions of Windows would give them a training cost that they'd have to spend with Linux anyway, and the hardware upgrade that newer Windows seats require would probably not make it worth it to go to Win7 or Win8.