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No Windows in West Bengal schools? Indranil Chakraborty, Kolkata, November 13, 2002

The West Bengal government is considering using open-source operating systems (OS) like Linux as an alternative to Microsoft Corp's Windows OS in its school computer literacy programme, and has approached hardware maker International Business Machines (IBM) to provide the system support.