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1. Comment - Mass. to Dump Microsoft Office by 2007

   (Sep 2, 2005 - 2:55 PM)

   Maybe if enough state governments required open standard document formats Microsoft might be forced to use the OASIS Open Document format. This would enable competition in the office suite market. Wordperfect, if it also adopted OASIS formats, could get back into market, as could other wordprocessing apps/office suites. Microsoft wouldn't do this voluntarily for this very reason - they don't want ANY competition - even their "open" XML formats are really just a wrapper for the proprietary code contained within. Microsoft wants to maintain it's monopoly, but if nudged by the needs of government we would all benefit by being able to use the office app of our choice, be it free/open source or proprietary. It wouldn't matter what you use because the formats would be open and interchangable between suites.