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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @05:00PM
Libre/Open Office do not handle them perfectly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2015, @08:18AM
either that or LibreOffice is opening them perfectly and Microsoft Office doesn't comply with it's own document format specification
would it really be that surprising?