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A New Dawn Rising For Open Documents?
A New Dawn Rising For Open Documents?
April 3, 2007
By Jacqueline Emigh
So far, the government document landscape in the US has been overwhelmingly dominated by three proprietary formats - .DOC (Microsoft's Word document), .PPT (Microsoft's PowerPoint), and .XLS (Microsoft's Excel spreadsheets).
With the filing of a new bill in Oregon, five US states have now taken legislative action around adopting open documents. Still, government agencies in the US lag way behind those in Europe in moving beyond Windows lock-in. In one big bright note, though, the ODF (OpenDocuments Format) Alliance--a one-year-old organization backed by Microsoft rivals such as IBM and Sun--seems to be spurring a lot of positive change, says this article.
Read the full article from here @ Datamation
April 3, 2007
By Jacqueline Emigh
So far, the government document landscape in the US has been overwhelmingly dominated by three proprietary formats - .DOC (Microsoft's Word document), .PPT (Microsoft's PowerPoint), and .XLS (Microsoft's Excel spreadsheets).
With the filing of a new bill in Oregon, five US states have now taken legislative action around adopting open documents. Still, government agencies in the US lag way behind those in Europe in moving beyond Windows lock-in. In one big bright note, though, the ODF (OpenDocuments Format) Alliance--a one-year-old organization backed by Microsoft rivals such as IBM and Sun--seems to be spurring a lot of positive change, says this article.
Read the full article from here @ Datamation
Labels: documents, government, ibm, microsoft, sun-microsystems, usa
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