* US State Finalises Its Microsoft Snub
posted by Thom Holwerda on Fri 30th Sep 2005 11:15 UTC, submitted by Sansta
IconThe commonwealth of Massachusetts has finalised its decision to standardise desktop applications on OpenDocument, a format not supported by Microsoft Office. State agencies in the executive branch are now supposed to migrate to OpenDocument-compliant applications by 1 January, 2007, a change that will affect about 50 000 desktop PCs. The reference model also confirms that Adobe's PDF format is considered an "open format".
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