Asian Tigers Plan to Challenge Windows

Three North Asian countries are closer to signing a deal to co-develop an open-source operating system to replace Windows, according to the Japan news daily Nihon Keizai Shimbun. The agreement is likely to be announced this week by Japanese trade minister Takeo Hiranuma at an economic ministers' meeting in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, said the report, quoting unnamed sources. (ZAnetindia.com cited in Financial Express, Mumbai)

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