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posted by janrinok on Saturday July 25 2015, @11:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the mais-oui dept.

Microsoft could get the boot from the French government if a new recommendation from an official advisor is adopted.

DISIC (Direction interministérielle des systèmes d'information et de communication de l'État) has recommended that French authorities ditch Microsoft Office tools in favour of the Open Document Format (ODF). DISIC is responsible for harmonising and reducing the costs of all state computers, including government ministries, state and regional departments and local authorities, and sees ODF as the best way to make them all interoperable.

According to sources, an initial draft of the report envisaged outlawing Microsoft's Open XML altogether, although with some agencies using tools specifically developed for use with Open XML, DISIC relented.

However, the final version strongly encourages the phasing out of Microsoft's ware in favour of ODF.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @02:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @02:55PM (#213491)

    That is simply unacceptable. The idea of schools (which are supposed to educate) using proprietary user-subjugating software (which is anti-education) is quite sickening and shouldn't even be allowed. The company holds all the cards, will likely violate people's privacy, and people will not have the four essential freedoms.