http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=7 How to get off, where to get off, and why you should stay off Microsoft, with news and tips on alternatives Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:57:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=7#comment-125 Thu, 01 Dec 2005 02:13:48 +0000 http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=7#comment-125 [...] To recap, the IT department in Mass. had decided not to include Microsoft Office file formats in its new list of required formats, effectively freezing out Microsoft Office in its future IT plans, and boosting the popularity of the standard XML-based OpenDocument Format (ODF) used by alternatives to Office (such as OpenOffice.org and NeoOffice). Billions are at stake in the decisions of large organizations that need to upgrade to take advantage of XML and get with the “Web 2.0″ program. Microsoft-funded lobbyists fought back, but eventually Microsoft decided to pursue a PR strategy of announcing that it would “open” its XML-based formats and submit them to standards bodies. Headlines proclaimed that Microsoft was “opening” its formats. [...] […] To recap, the IT department in Mass. had decided not to include Microsoft Office file formats in its new list of required formats, effectively freezing out Microsoft Office in its future IT plans, and boosting the popularity of the standard XML-based OpenDocument Format (ODF) used by alternatives to Office (such as OpenOffice.org and NeoOffice). Billions are at stake in the decisions of large organizations that need to upgrade to take advantage of XML and get with the “Web 2.0″ program. Microsoft-funded lobbyists fought back, but eventually Microsoft decided to pursue a PR strategy of announcing that it would “open” its XML-based formats and submit them to standards bodies. Headlines proclaimed that Microsoft was “opening” its formats. […]

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