I'm glad they made the correct decision of moving back to a script actually suitable to their language. I always found it ironic that Mongolia the country used Cyrillic despite the significance the creation of the Mongolian Script under Ghengis Khan had to their ethnogenesis.
I find it worrying that some in this thread oppose this move on technical grounds. As an industry, software has to acknowledge that technology is subordinate to the needs of people, not the other way around. Especially in this case where the technical barriers are wholely artificial.
The desired use of technology by the people is exactly the reason to adopt an alphabet that enables ready access to technology though. If you impose a difficult, or unique script you impose a barrier to use of, and development of technology.
These moves seem to me like an aspect of the greater separatism and nationalism that has been infecting many nations.
I find it worrying that some in this thread oppose this move on technical grounds. As an industry, software has to acknowledge that technology is subordinate to the needs of people, not the other way around. Especially in this case where the technical barriers are wholely artificial.