Belgian government chooses OpenDocument

Lodahl · Post by **Lodahl** » 5. Jul 2006 20:50

Wednesday July 05, 2006 (05:00 PM GMT)
By: Koen Vervloesem
Belgium's Council of Ministers last month approved a proposal that requires federal government departments to use open file formats for exchanging documents. As it stands now, the only accepted standard is the Open Document Format (ODF). This increases the pressure on Microsoft to come up with support for open standards.

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