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Microsoft Relents on Open Source Documents

Microsoft's surprise decision to support ODF could be in reaction to a recent government mandate in Massachussets

Microsoft's surprise decision to support ODF could be in reaction to a recent government mandate in Massachussets that will require all state agencies to save documents in a vendor-neutral, standards-based format. "Government records should be free of any proprietary software dependencies," said Owen Ambur, chairman of the Federal CIO Council's Extensible Markup Language Community of Practice.