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
If you have read the whole discussion over the past couple of weeks, MS
did try convincing Mass. that it's XML specification was "open". The
problem is that it isn't open enough to meet the requirements of Mass.
Of course, MS only has to support OASIS to be an accepted program. Not
much of a problem since MS has been involved with the OASIS project. Of
course they have already written the OASIS organization about their
intent "not to support" OASIS. Heck, Microsoft is a sponsor to the
OASIS project as you can see from the OASIS site.
http://www.oasis-open.org/home/index.php
Microsoft's comments all come down to money.
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Robin Laing
