The Communist-run government of Kerala has launched a campaign to make the southern Indian state a Microsoft-free zone, less than two weeks after banning the sale and manufacture of Coca-Cola and Pepsi, the Financial Times reported on its Web site Tuesday.

Returned to power in Kerala in May, the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led government has announced a three-year plan to promote the rapid adoption of open source operating systems in state-funded schools and colleges, the report said.

"There may eventually be a few individuals at the margins who still choose to use Microsoft."

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