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Story: Belgian government chooses OpenDocument

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If MS really supports XML, it could easily choose to support OpenDocument. One of the marketing claims has been that MS Office can support arbitrary XML schemas. If that claim is true then MS Office more or less already supports OpenDocument. However, it may well be the case that these marketing claims are in fact false.

Furthermore, it does not cost MS anything to use OpenDocument, the standard is freely available and MS has been invited and encouraged repeatedly to join in the process.

Even if MS fails on OpenDocument, a plugin is already available from a third party.

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