Munich is ditching Linux in favor of Windows 10, at a cost of €49.3 million:
The Linux love affair of the German City of Munich, which decided to favor Linux in 2003, is finally over. The city has officially cleared the plan to bring back Windows 10 on about 29,000 PCs.
In 2003, when the city decided to switch to a Linux-based desktop called LiMux and other open source software, it showed that free software could be used on a large scale. However, things didn't turn out the way they were planned.
Coming back to the recent development, the politicians who supported the switch said that Windows 10 will make it easier to source compatible application and drivers, according to TechRepublic.
[...] Linux enthusiasts should also note that the city's IT Chief has previously said that any concrete technical reason doesn't back the move; it's all politics.
Also at Engadget.
Previously: No, Munich Isn't About To Ditch Free Software and Move Back to Windows
Munich Reveals Preliminary Costs for a 'Return' to Windows
Linux Champion Munich Takes Decisive Step Towards Returning to Windows
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday November 28 2017, @04:12PM
There was a lot of that going on in the late 90's early 00's. A lot of VB applications using COM and MS access were common in business software. It is also very common in industrial automation and SCADA stuff. That is almost impossible to port after MS completely dropped VB support in favor of VB.net. I have a XP VM setup with Visual studio 6 to maintain a data logger system for our vacuum ovens which uses a COM library for a Dataq logger and I/O box plus an MS access database to store the report data. Thankfully I have the source as it was built in-house.