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Microsoft criticises UK government decision to adopt ODF
- SEJeff 12y agoThis is not exactly surprising. With the unbelievable amount of energy microsoft has put into preventing ODF at every turn, this has to be something that scares the hell out of them. Office is still one of their bigger cash cows. I'm sure they're furiously trying to talk the UK government out of this decision. This is great news for the UK people however. I'm constantly impressed with how tech savvy some parts of the UK government. A great example would be this gem of a post: https://gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/2013/12/05/building-a-new-router-for-gov-uk/ https://gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/2013/12/05/building-a-new-... And this: https://github.com/alphagov https://github.com/alphagov
- davidgerard 12y agoCould be good in the short term. The big thing in office apps right now is going cloud, which is how Google Apps is replacing Microsoft Office. And Office 365 does reasonably good ODF 1.2 ... and Google Apps doesn't.