Australian Government Denies Microsoft Bias In OOXML Choice

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 20, 2011 @04:18PM from the have-you-never-heard-of-coincidence dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It looks like the Australian Government is not taking criticism of its decision to mandate Microsoft's Office Open XML standard lying down. 'The policy is vendor-neutral which allows its principles and standards to be used across any platform,' they said this week. Yup ... except for the fact that almost no other office suite apart from Microsoft Office supports writing to the standard. And as for Firefox? Turns out 96 percent of Australian Government desktops use Internet Explorer. Looks like bureaucracy is winning here."

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Re:No bias at all. by Anonymous Coward · 2011-01-20 16:29 · Score: 0, Troll

WebM? A single vendor supports it and the FSF came out today in support of it.
Sure its biased by ugen · 2011-01-20 17:38 · Score: 1, Troll

The only way it would not be considered biased here on /. is if it selected Linux and Open Office ;) Sheesh.
(Let's see how soon collective /. consciousness mods this down to "troll" so as not to see an opinion different from the general consensus)