Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 24th Aug 2006 16:33 UTC
Massachusetts will begin using OpenDocument as the default document format later this year as planned, but it will be sticking with Microsoft Office in the near term, the state's top tech executive said.
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2005-11-11
//I think that most of us (who have every reason to be of skeptic of Microsoft) know what this translates to, a bastardized version of ODF.
When all is said and done, I'll promise you that you will not be able to freely exchange files between Microsoft and other ODF supported products.
I can see it now. You're in Word. You choose "Save As". You select "ODF Format". A warning pops up and says, "Are you sure you want to save this file in this format? You may lose formatting, formulas and Macros. //
It is a shame this comment got modded up so highly. It would be a perfectly correct observation IMO if the plugin that MA were going to use is the one sponsored by Microsoft. No doubt if this were the case, the above is what we would be likely to see.
However, if you read the linked article, it appears that MA are going with an ODF plugin written entirely independently of Microsoft, and which works pretty well and seamlessly.