Windows 8 being used in Australian parliament
By Sashank Nandury ,Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013Tags: Australia, Government, Pilot run, testing, Windows 8, Windows 8 Tablets
A few days ago, we spoke about the licensing agreement that Microsoft entered into with the United States Department of Defense and how Pentagon employees can use Windows 8 on their devices.
Now, we give you this – Windows 8 is being used in the Australian parliament. That’s second government to favor Microsoft and use its product Windows 8. Department of Parliamentary Services is the organization that conducted testing with a pilot run.
They have selected six users from and gave them Windows 8 tablets to check the performance and ease of use. They have been briefed about the criteria to evaluate the tablet and check if the users are satisfied with the tablets.
Though as of now, they’re only using Windows 8 on tablets and are replying on other operating systems for their phones as they wanted to give flexibility to their employees. To know more about this, read the complete story here.
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