Massachusetts adopts Office Open XML
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Microsoft won a small victory in its strategic campaign to make its Office Open XML file formats into a global standard when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts issued its expected endorsement of the formats Wednesday.
The acceptance of a two-standard approach came even though the state received 460 comments ? mostly negative -- during a three week comment period that began in early July. Massachusetts had previously signed off on the use of the OpenDocument Format or ODF as its primary document standard.