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Slovak Antimonopoly Office Defends Obligatory Microsoft Use

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Slovakia, Citizen Media, Digital Activism, Economics & Business, Law, Technology

European Information Society Institute, a Slovak NGO, reports [1] [sk] that the Slovak Antimonopoly Office [2] (AMO) does not see it as a problem that the country's Financial Directorate is forcing taxpayers to use Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer, arguing that there is just about 10 percent of 44,000 subjects who have to use eTax and eDane applications, which are not compatible with Microsoft Windows. Netizen jaaaaaaaaaaj notes [3] [sk] that, using AMO's logic, murder also affects just a negligible number of the population.