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Belgian Gov't requires ODF From 09/2008

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the moving-faster-then-MA dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Belgian government has decided all government agencies will be required to use only open document standards from September 2008 onwards. One year earlier, they should be able to read them. In practice this means only ODF will be supported, although OpenXML will be considered if it becomes an accepted standard, and enough applications use it. According to a Belgian Microsoft-spokesman, Microsoft is considering supporting ODF (article in Dutch)."

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  1. MS Support of ODF by should_be_linear · · Score: 5, Funny

    As MS employee, I can promiss we will not only support ODF, but extend ODF to many new ways our customers are excited to experience.

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    1. Re:MS Support of ODF by ceeam · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh, Microsoft - the goatse of standards! But still can't implement CSS1.

  2. HTML all over again? by andrewman327 · · Score: 5, Funny
    I am very annoyed by Microsoft's additions to html in FrontPage. Fortunately it seems that they cannot do the same type of thing with ODF, as it is a more protected format.

    As much as I am ashamed to admit it, however, I use OpenOffice but save in the .doc format.

    Maybe what we need is a support group to expand odf. Let me start.

    "Hi, I'm Andrew and I have been using .doc for ten years."

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  3. Microsoft are Go! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why is it that I can't help picturing the Thunderbirds launch sequence when I think of all those Microsoft lobbyists rushing off to Belgium?