India’s minister for information technology yesterday said he’s dumping his current word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation graphics packages, will adopt the locally made alternatives from Zoho instead, and urged India’s 1.4 billion residents to do likewise.

“I am moving to Zoho – our own Swadeshi platform for documents, spreadsheets & presentations,” the Minister wrote. Swadeshi is a word from Sanskrit and Bengali that describes self-sufficiency. Zoho is an Indian software developer that offers a vast array of productivity tools and business applications that it mostly delivers as SaaS and sells in keenly priced bundles, an approach that has seen it win over 100 million users. The company also won a competition to create a locally developed web browser that India’s government recom

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