Comments on: Mass. hands OpenDocument reins to new CIO

Louis Gutierrez becomes chief information officer in Bay State, where he will take charge of OpenDocument policy.

[thenet411]

Politics and Grandstanding

This entire fiasco is about nothing more than politics and grandstanding. So what that Microsoft has the best applications for the office? The entire state government is a bunch of no nothing ninnies.

[technewsjunkie]

Great news!

I really want to see this be succesful.

And the Dominos fall...

[robertcampbell2]

Indeed it is, good for everyone involved including MS

I think the statement by Gutierrez, "...through the application of open standards that interoperate with many kinds of technology and vendors" signals that it is not an all or nothing proposition and that bodes well for the disabled, ODF and Microsoft.

[Leekolas]

Native Support question

The article stated that Microsoft wouldn't support the OpenDocument standard natively, does that mean that there could be a plugin or something like that so that MSOffice will support it?

[mlamonica]

Microsoft and OpenDocument

Microsoft has said that they will rely on third-party "filters" to read OpenDocument-formatted documents. They haven't mentioned any specific companies by name.