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1. 1 detsember 2009 kell 19:50, Rob Weir kirjutas:

   http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/11/asking-right-questions-about-office.html

2. 30 jaanuar 2010 kell 11:07, Danes ditch Microsoft, take ODF road - at last kirjutas:

   The Register writes:
   Danes ditch Microsoft, take ODF road – at last
   Cross party parliamentarians gang up against Redmond
   By Kelly Fiveash • Get more from this author
   Posted in Applications, 29th January 2010 15:41 GMT
   The Danish Parliament has agreed to ditch some Microsoft-based software in favour of the ODF standard from April next year.
   According to version2.dk and courtesy of politken.dk, parliamentary parties decided – after four years of deliberation – to use the Open Document Format in all Danish state office documents.

   “My ambition is that in the future we will only communicate using open standards,” Science Minister Helge Sander of moderate right wing party Venstre told Denmark’s Parliament.
   The decision to axe Microsoft’s Office document formats won cross-party support.
   “We believe that open source is the way forward and should replace the patent attitudes that we currently have,” said the Unity List’s Per Clausen.
   For the time being, only national institutions will make the switch to ODF. Regional bodies will make the shift at a later, yet to be announced, date.
   In February 2008 a Danish Unix user group – DKUUG – lashed out at Microsoft’s Office 2007 file format, by filing a formal complaint to the European Union. It claimed MS was in breach of the EC Treaty article 81 on unfair competition over the Danish state mandatory regulation of ECMA-approved OOXML.
   “DKUUG asks the commission to make a decision to make void the part on OOXML of the Danish regulation on mandatory standards [ECMA-376 or ISO/IEC DIS 29500] OOXML, so that other products can participate in the competition on office software for the Danish state," it demanded at the time.
   “This is in line with regulations in other countries, for example in the federal Belgium, or Norway, where only the ISO standard ODF is specified for the subject.”
   DKUUG vice chair Keld Simonsen claimed that the Danish state was allowing Redmond to maintain a private monopoly in Denmark, even though OOXML didn’t fulfill the “requirements on openness” that Parliament agreed upon in its decision B103 in 2006.
   “A document standards decision may not matter to you today, but as someone who relies on constant access to editable documents, spreadsheets and presentations, it may matter immensely in the near future,” said Bhorat.
   Of course, those comments came at a time when Microsoft was still battling to gain ISO approval of the OOXML format.
   By April that year, MS finally sealed a deal to get OOXML recognised as an international standard alongside ODF.
   Nearly two years on, and Denmark’s parliamentary members have blown a big fat raspberry in Microsoft’s "we’re interoperable" face.

3. 5 veebruar 2010 kell 18:09, the COPENHAGEN post online kirjutas:

   State dumps Microsoft
   Thursday, 04 February 2010 10:47 RC

   Software giant Microsoft has lost out to ODF in the battle to serve as the state’s open source document provider

   After years of deliberation, parliament has voted to stop using Microsoft’s Open Suite file format and switch to ‘Open Document Format’, reports financial daily Børsen.

   Already in 2006, parliament had voted to abandon common Microsoft document programmes such as Word in favour of open source documents. But the choice at that point came down to using Microsoft’s own OOXML open source format or ODF, whose specifications were originally developed by Sun Microsystems. The ODF standard was created by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.

   MPs voting for the change said the new format will be cheaper than Microsoft’s and of a higher quality. They have allowed, however, for the future use of OOXML documents within the system.

   The new format will take effect on 1 April 2011.

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