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The people from the state government bowed to the Microsoft lobbying and included the Office Open XML spec in the open document guidelines. ODF would have been fine alone.
The people from the state government bowed to the Microsoft lobbying and included the Office Open XML spec in the open document guidelines. ODF would have been fine alone.
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Massachusetts today released draft specifications that would allow state workers to continue using Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) format. The latest proposal comes about two years after state IT officials kicked off a raging political battle by unveiling specifications that would have required state workers to use applications that support only "open" technologies like the OpenDocument format (ODF). "Open XML does meet our established criteria for an open standard," said Bethann Pepoli, the state's acting CIO, in an e-mail to Computerworld. "There is industry support for Open XML and we believe that by adopting the standard we will be able to accelerate the pace of migration to XML document formats."