christian.einfeldt writes “The Dutch government has set a target date of April 2008 for its agencies to start preferentially using open standards-based software. Organizations in the government will still be able to use proprietary software and formats … but will have to justify it. A Microsoft Netherlands spokesman claims that Microsoft’s Office productivity suite will still be used widely in the Dutch government until April, and that Microsoft Office will comply with the new Dutch rules once Microsoft’s so-called “Open Office XML” standard is approved as an international ISO standard in February.”
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