OT: Massachusetts Verdict: MS Office Formats Out
Temlakos
temlakos at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 16:33:37 UTC 2005
Mike McCarty wrote:
> Fajar Priyanto wrote:
>
>> The future is forming up....
>>
>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1863060,00.asp
>>
>> The state of Massachusetts Friday made it official: It will use only
>> nonproprietary document formats in state-affiliated offices effective
>> Jan. 1, 2007. Although state CIO Peter Quinn has said repeatedly that
>> this issue does not represent "the state versus Microsoft Corp. —or
>> any one company," adoption of the long-debated plan may result in all
>> versions of Microsoft's Office productivity suite being phased out of
>> use throughout the state's executive branch agencies.
>
>
> Or MS could "open" its document format...
>
> [snip]
>
> Mike
Not in a hundred years will MS do any such thing.
Actually, the Massachusetts decision is a bigger boon to the OpenOffice
project than to Linux alone--because after all, OpenOffice is available
in any OS you can name. I've recommended OO to a client when MS Office
crashed and burned on his Windows 98SE system.
Temlakos
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