Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lai, Eric
• Sliwa, Carol

Titel

Mass. Set to Mix Office With ODF

Ist Teil von

• Computerworld, 2006-08, Vol.40 (35), p.1-45

Ort / Verlag

Framingham: Foundry

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

Quelle

EBSCOhost Business Source Ultimate

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Massachusetts last week officially confirmed that its executive agencies for now will continue using Microsoft Office instead of switching to alternative desktop applications. But by Jan 1, in keeping with a controversial policy announced last year, the state plans to start adding plug-in software that will let its Office users create and save files in the industry-standard OpenDocument format (ODF). Proponents of ODF are touting it as an alternative to Open XML, and they hope that encouraging the adoption of a non-Microsoft format will help loosen Office's hold on its more than 400 million end users worldwide.