All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has consented to evacuate "compulsory" from a questionable reminder it served on 11,500 universities it regulates for introducing Microsoft Office 365.

This choice has come after delegates from the Free Software Movement of India had restricted the first declaration requesting that all Institutions convey the product

General Secretary of FSMI said that this declaration was infringing upon the National Information Technology Policy, 2012 and this is accurately the motivation behind why AICTE was compelled to return its choice.

While this declaration would have been valuable for some schools, it was a constrained seller lock-in for some other people who favored open source programming because of it being less expensive over the long haul. While Microsoft Office 365 Suite was being offered for nothing, open source lovers contend that it would even now have taken a toll more over the long haul. The principle downside being that Microsoft Office 365 evidently just backings web altering of restrictive arrangements i.e. docx, xlsx or pptx, which would have been a major issue for individuals who don't utilize Microsoft Windows Operating System.