Andy Updegrove
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Authored by Andy Updegrove on Feb 25, 2014 15:03:08 GMT
Last week I highlighted the fact that Microsoft was urging its business partners to comment at the British Cabinet Office's Standards Hub on a standards-related proposal. That proposal would limit government procurement to office software that complied with the ISO ODF standard, but makes no mention of the ISO OOXML standard promoted by Microsoft. I also noted that anyone could comment on the proposal, and that the deadline for comments would close on February 26, Greenwich time. I closed by urging readers to let their opinions on the subject be heard. Having so urged, I could hardly forego offering my own comments as well, and now I have done exactly that. What follows is the text I uploaded there, and perhaps it will help motivate you to contribute as well if you have not already done so.
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Authored by cpeterson on Feb 26, 2014 1:20:17 GMT
Thank you - we appreciate what you do to support sanity.
I'm not a UK citizen, but I work for a UK-based corporation and have to create docs for government submission, so I'm pretty sure this is going to have some effect on me. Since our IT department's philosophy is "if you need non-Microsoft software, then you don't need software", I'm expecting interesting times.
If the 26th is the close of submissions, how much of a time window does MS have for dirty tricks between then and the decision being made?
cpeterson
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Authored by wol on Feb 26, 2014 17:24:10 GMT
Well, I was reading a bunch of the submissions and they were (mostly) good for us.
I was rather disappointed, however, to see a name I recognize (Andrew Macauley) from the Pick world happily arguing in favour of .doc :-( It was, however, about the only one I noticed.
Cheers, Wol
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Authored by wayneborean on Feb 27, 2014 17:16:08 GMT
Well done Andy!
Wayne
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