Dutch Government Adopts Open Source Software Initiative

christian.einfeldt writes "The Dutch government has set a target date of April 2008 for its agencies to start preferentially using open standards-based software. Organizations in the government will still be able to use proprietary software and formats ... but will have to justify it. A Microsoft Netherlands spokesman claims that Microsoft's Office productivity suite will still be used widely in the Dutch government until April, and that Microsoft Office will comply with the new Dutch rules once Microsoft's so-called "Open Office XML" standard is approved as an international ISO standard in February."

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OOXML is a misnomer, use MSXML instead.

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Yes, OOXML is a misnomer. Because no one else can modify or fully implement ooxml the name should be "msxml". I suggest that we all use this term to describe the thing M$ is trying to push. It's short and impossible to confuse with anything else.