Many governments are long overdue to disqualify Microsoft Windows from use on publicly owner computers.

There are many reasons why they should. privacy concerns have been grow. But cost of ownership is about ten times higher than using FOSS, including Linux.

Many governments have known this for a long time.

For example, here's where Latin America was headed in 2001:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/1428041/linux-spreading-rapidly-in-latin-america.html