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Minnesota study supports open document formats

May 29, 2008

New York and Minnesota just completed studies into the merits of using open formats. In the Minnesota report, the Office of Enterprise Technology came out in favor of open document formats, but stated that the marketplace is in flux, and it may be too early to recommend one format over another. (In related news, Microsoft [...]

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Brits shying away from Microsoft Office

May 14, 2008

According to InformationWeek, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency is advocating for removing Microsoft Office from the classroom in favor of open-standards compliant office suites like OpenOffice.org. It is good to see this kind of pressure on Microsoft. If they would either open up their OOXML standard or else support the Open Document Format [...]

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