11/29: Massachusetts "Pleased" with Microsoft's Office Open XML

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Mass. Pleased with Microsoft's Progress:

"The commonwealth is very pleased with Microsoft's progress in creating an open document format. If Microsoft follows through as planned, we are optimistic that Office Open XML will meet our new standards for acceptable open formats," Trimarco said.

Senator Pacheco also recommended that Microsoft Office be deemed acceptable if Office Open XML is certified by Ecma. "If you have a product that's going to be accepted in the international community, and they still exclude it here, then it's really about restricting Microsoft and not about open standards," he said.

Via Marc Orchant via Jeremy Reimer.

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