Descriptions of Microsoft Office binary formats
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| These formats being available now rather removes the “OOXML as documentation
| of Microsoft legacy formats” argument for the need for OOXML. Of course, they
| could have been made widely available before, but weren’t, for some reason.
|
| I utterly reject the need for OOXML as a standard because it is a description
| of the Microsoft Office 2007 formats. OOXML was released from ECMA within a
| month or so of Office 2007, so claiming any sort of “legacy” for Office 2007
| is ridiculous.
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=2091
Someone told me that Microsoft might already be moving on to ODF. Their
so-called 'opening up' stunt does more harm than good to OOXML. It makes it
redundant.
Related:
Microsoft CTO: ODF is an 'elegant' standard
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| "What [Microsoft] is doing with OOXML is to further lock down [users] with
| dependencies on Microsoft technologies as part of their business value
| chain," said Pillay.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Microsoft-CTO-ODF-is-an-elegant-standard/0,130061733,339286096,00.htm
Microsoft quietly supporting ODF?
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| The OpenDocument Society mentions in its newsletter that Microsoft might have
| an "ODF standards group" within the Microsoft Office team.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-41287/microsoft-quietly-supporting-odf
Countries adopting ODF (OpenDocument Format) Annual Report and Future Outlook
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| Following the trend at the national level, three regional governments -
| Kerala (a state in southwestern India), Misiones (a province in northeast
| Argentina), and Paraná (a state in southern Brazil) – adopted policies
| requiring the use of ODF. The year ended on a high note, with the Netherlands
| and South Africa officially adopting policies requiring ODF’s use by
| government agencies, joining ten other countries that had already done so.
| Norway required the use of ODF for all published, revisable documents on
| government web sites.
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http://fanaticattack.com/2008/countries-adopting-odf-opendocument-format-annual-report-and-future-outlook.html
ODF happening in Berlin
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| This should be a good event to get the pulse on ODF adoption in Europe.
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http://www.novell.com/prblogs/?p=408
South Africa adopts ODF as govt standard
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| The South African government yesterday announced the adoption of OpenDocument
| Format (ODF) as a standard for government communications.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=$id&src=digg
Netherlands Picks ODF
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| Frank Heemskerk, Minister of Economic Affairs, announced today that ODF will
| be the standard for reading, publishing and the exchange of information for
| all governmental organisations. The deadline is January 2009.
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http://gotze.eu/2007/09/netherlands-picks-odf.html
Malaysia formally embraces open doc format
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| The Malaysian government today announced plans to adopt open standards and
| the Open Document Format (ODF) within the country's public sector.
|
| [...]
|
| In July this year, Japan became the first country in the Asia-Pacific region
| to embrace open software standards. Last August, the United Nations urged
| countries in the region to adopt the ODF.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62030781,00.htm
Government of Japan Embraces Open Software Standards
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| The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), the leading organization
| advocating for openness and accessibility to government documents and
| information, today congratulated Japan for adopting a policy under which
| government ministries and agencies will solicit bids from software vendors
| whose products support internationally recognized open standards.
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http://www.govtech.com/gt/126612?topic=117674
Opendocument_adoption
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| Contents
|
| * 1 United States
| o 1.1 Massachusetts
| + 1.1.1 References
| o 1.2 Other states and organizations in the US
| + 1.2.1 References
| * 2 Europe
| o 2.1 EU Definition of an open standard
| o 2.2 United Kingdom
| + 2.2.1 Bristol City Council
| o 2.3 Belgium
| o 2.4 Finland
| o 2.5 Slovakia
| * 3 Other governments
| o 3.1 Australia
| o 3.2 India
| o 3.3 Japan
| o 3.4 Malaysia
| o 3.5 Peru
| o 3.6 Vietnam
| o 3.7 Other
| * 4 See also
| * 5 References
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opendocument_adoption
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