The Danish government and the Danish state administrations are for some reason very Microsoft oriented. When you as a citizen cooperate with the Danish E-government it is not enough that you use Windows, you must use IExplorer.
My personal belief - and I work for a local government here in Denmark - is that this predilection is caused by ignorance, mental lazyness and common garden stupidity and not by darker motives. There was a time when such people said "You don't get fired for buying IBM". And yes, they did get fired. I may be wrong of course but don't look for corruption and Darth Vader when there are simpler explanations available (Occam's razor).
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Danish government obtuseness
Posted by: jens guld on January 28, 2004 07:33 AMMy personal belief - and I work for a local government here in Denmark - is that this predilection is caused by ignorance, mental lazyness and common garden stupidity and not by darker motives. There was a time when such people said "You don't get fired for buying IBM". And yes, they did get fired. I may be wrong of course but don't look for corruption and Darth Vader when there are simpler explanations available (Occam's razor).
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