This isn't an immediate, everyone-must-switch-now type situation. The state is letting vendors know what their requirements are, so that vendors can include ODF compatibility in their newer releases. Microsoft could include the ability to read from and save to ODF format, but they aren't going to.
Also, the point isn't to make government documents more easily readable right now, isn't considering what software citizens have at this very instant, but is a longer term thing.
Oh no, you're starting to resort to bolding to try to make your points. When do the colors and point size increases come in like we see from several of the other open source proponents?
Spin all you want, this change makes reading any state created files by their citizens much more difficult, both now and at any time in any near future.