Australia Mandates Microsoft's Office Open XML

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @04:11PM from the not-to-be-confused-with dept.

littlekorea writes "The Australian Government has released a common operating environment desktop policy that — among security controls aimed at reducing the potential for leaks of Government data — mandates the ECMA-376 version of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) standard and productivity suites that can 'read and write' the .docx format, effectively locking the country's public servants into using Microsoft Office. The policy [PDF] also appears to limit desktop operating systems to large, off-the-shelf commercial offerings at the expense of smaller distributions."

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Down under is going down, down, down by Anonymous Coward · 2011-01-18 16:14 · Score: 2, Funny

The land down under just went under.
1. Re:Down under is going down, down, down by c0lo · 2011-01-18 16:43 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  The land down under just went underer.
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