Hasta la Vista baby, in a move back in June of this year, the government of Cuba delcared that it was moving off of the Microsoft Windows Operating system and to Open Source Software (OSS).  Cuba unveiled its own version of the Linux operating system called Nova Baire – developed at the University of Information Sciences of Havana (UCI) – at the Informática International Convention and Fair held in the Cuban capital in February 2009. The Cuban government hopes to implement Nova Baire in 50 percent of its computers in the next five years, thus moving away from Microsoft Windows.

But Microsoft is not going without a fight, in August it took steps to ban access to it’s Instant Messaging product Windows Live Messenger.  Citing requests from the US government to compy with Export Control laws, other US Software vendors such as Google and AOL quickly followed suit.  Earlier this month, Microsoft admitted that it’s market share had dipped below 90% worlwide.  This may be a sign that Open Source is gaining traction.

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