Star Microsoft Document Formats Gain Massachusetts' Favour
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Jul 2007 22:00 UTC
Features, Office Massachusetts has proposed changing its standards policy to make room for Microsoft Office document formats. The state's Information Technology Division on Monday posted a draft proposal, part of a periodic revision to its overall technical architecture, to its Web site where it will be under review until July 20. If accepted, the policy update would list Office Open XML as acceptable 'open formats' for use by executive-branch state agencies. Office Open XML, also referred to as Ecma-376, are the XML-based file formats in Office 2007 that Microsoft standardized at Ecma International late last year.
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RE[3]: Open isn't open...
by Matzon on Tue 3rd Jul 2007 07:58 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Open isn't open..."
Matzon
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2005-07-06

here's no way in hell they could implement 90% of Office's features in ODF without extending the spec, *especially* in Excel since ODF has a nearly non-existent specifications for formulas, etc. So exactly what did you expect them to do? Axe most of Office's features so they could use ODF?

I don't know, participate in ODF development instead of rolling their own?

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