July 24, 2014 11:12 AM
Profile: Bryan Glick
Cabinet office, GDS, Microsoft, ODF, office, OOXML
Congratulations to GDS on open document formats – but will Microsoft resort to litigation?

Back in February, when the UK government's consultation on the use of open document formats closed, I described the decision to be made by the Cabinet Office as
February 27, 2014 11:03 AM
Profile: Bryan Glick
Government IT, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, ODF, OOXML
Now comes the acid test for the government’s open standards policy

The UK government's consultation on the use of open document formats has closed*, and we now wait for the acid test of the Cabinet Office commitment to open standards.
The outcome of this process will determine the government's ability to break its lock-in to proprietary software for...
February 24, 2014 11:16 AM
Profile: Bryan Glick
Government IT, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, ODF, OOXML
Thanks Microsoft – we now know that everybody prefers ODF to OOXML for government document standards

Microsoft's call to its friends in the software community to contribute to the government's consultation on open document formats seems to have worked.
Although,...