![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Forcing all institutes to use MS Office 365 gives an undue advantage to institutes using Windows and in effect, forces the institutes using Linux as the primary operating system to move to Windows (which obviously costs money, effort and produces a massive lack of competition). Iii) A large number of universities and colleges (and most good universities) use GNU/Linux based OSes as their primary operating systems. I really hope that the top institutes take a stand against this and threaten to get unaffiliated with AICTE should they not relent. There is no need to force things on those institutes which already have a working model which AICTE are currently doing by making this mandatory. Ii) Most good universities ( IITs,NITs,IIITs and good regional colleges) already have hassle-free, more than adequate information setups from their own mail servers to domains. If only we had a fair-trade body that monitors such things, Microsoft would probably be paying billions in damages) ( Microsoft frequently kneels before European courts and sometimes American courts as well for involving in Anti-competitive strategies and this new strategy to tie up with AICTE in just one among their long list of cons. Such a vendor-lock-in would have been considered anti-competitive in most developed countries. I) It gives undue advantage to Microsoft in the Indian marketspace and among Indian students in particular by forcing them to use the product. I posted an article on this a couple of days back and I'm going to reiterate why this is a terrible idea: ![]()
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