Mike McCarty wrote:
Fajar Priyanto wrote:
The future is forming up....
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1863060,00.asp
The state of Massachusetts Friday made it official: It will use only
nonproprietary document formats in state-affiliated offices effective
Jan. 1, 2007. Although state CIO Peter Quinn has said repeatedly that
this issue does not represent "the state versus Microsoft Corp. —or
any one company," adoption of the long-debated plan may result in all
versions of Microsoft's Office productivity suite being phased out of
use throughout the state's executive branch agencies.
Or MS could "open" its document format...
[snip]
Mike
Not in a hundred years will MS do any such thing.
Actually, the Massachusetts decision is a bigger boon to the OpenOffice
project than to Linux alone--because after all, OpenOffice is available
in any OS you can name. I've recommended OO to a client when MS Office
crashed and burned on his Windows 98SE system.
Temlakos
