Microsoft blasts Massachusetts' new 'Office' policy
CRN.com | at | by Mike
Microsoft is lashing out against a revised IT policy planned by Massachusetts that would kill the use of Office in state agencies unless the company adopts the OpenDocument file format.
According to a proposed plan distributed by the state's Information Technology Division on Wednesday, only two document formats Open Document and Adobe's PDF will be acceptable for state use in the future.
The OpenDocument format, which was ratified in May by Oasis, is supported by OpenOffice, an open source Office suite, and in Sun's StarOffice, which is owned by Sun Microsystems.