I bet the new policy will stimulate competition and innovation. It will result in rapid improvements to the OpenDocument standard, and a bunch of great new applications will emerge that will put Microsoft to shame (again). I hope companies like Apple adopt OpenDocument as a native format in their applications.
Jim Prendergast is executive director of Americans for Technology Leadership.
The so-called "Americans for Technology Leadership" is lobbyist outfit funded by Microsoft. Prendergast makes his living by spreading Microsoft FUD.
Nowhere in his article did he address the substantive issues of data format rot in long-term document storage, which may be the reason that Microsoft is banned in Boston.
Exactly. I already have documents written in obsolete proprietary word processor formats. I don't want public records to be inaccessible 100 years from now.