[odf-discuss] India eGovernment moving toward OOXML approval?

[marbux]

"The Department of Information Technology (dit) has drafted a fresh
policy on open standards for e-governance. The new draft may lead to a
reconsideration of the department's earlier decision to reject
Microsoft's document format, ooxml, as an open standard format. The
draft has provision for multiple standards, which can allow ooxml,
used to save digital documents, to be accepted as a standard open
format, besides the existing open document format (odf) developed by
the Open Document Alliance group."

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