SAVE Award 2011 Ideas

In my organization, we use three different versions of Microsoft Office, Office 97, 2003, and 2007; and two different OS. We are in the process of deploying Office 2010/Win7, but only on select platforms because the other computers are too old to update. I spend countless-hours building spreadsheets, or editing documents that used on each system due to coding differences and capabilities. Then, when that system finally... more »

Lower the deficit by lowering the debt by repatriating some of what China is holding.

China has done little to no policing of its black market of bootlegged software - much of it from US companies. Microsoft Windows, myriad video games, bootlegged copies of CDs, etc., are rampant and easily available.

Let's persuade China to return a big chunk of our debt that they're holding in return for the value of the pirated Microsoft,... more »

We have a multi-million, possibly multi-billion dollar contract with Microsoft for the Windows operating system, Office programs and Server software. If we were to switch to Linux based operating systems, software packages and servers (Ubuntu, Mac Lion, Libre Office, etc.) we would instantly save those millions/billions in software licensing costs. In addition to the software being free and open source, it would be more... more »