[odf-discuss] Microsoft dismisses Becta criticism

[Russell Ossendryver]

Becta's main concern with Office 2007 is the potential for difficulties to
arise when attempting to read documents created in Office 2007 using older
and non-Microsoft applications, such as Office 2003 and OpenOffice. Most
poorer households are not yet running Office 2007, the agency said, and so
deploying it in schools would risk opening up what Becta referred to as a
"digital divide", excluding some pupils from reading documents.
Becta said it was concerned about Microsoft's support of its own document
specification<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39289089,00.htm>,
Office Open XML (OOXML), on which Office 2007 is based. It added that
Microsoft still does not effectively support OpenDocument Format (ODF),
which is an international standard.

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